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why I am leaving academia: typo

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@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ That's not to say that people aren't prepared to help each other out. My point i
Even though I think that's not completely true, evidently, recruiters do, as this even cost me a job offer, where afterwards I heard that in the last few years, I "_haven't touched Java, or development in general, that, given the difficult market, is detrimental to immediate employability_". What a way to politely try to say that I'm too expensive.
That transparent bullshit might have a faint ring of truth to it, though. While I kept myself up-to-date---even more so than during my job as a software engineer, to be honest---of course I haven't touched huge enterprise software projects, and of course I'm not up-to-date when it comes to the latest front-ent JS framework pizzazz. But give me a week and my code spewing engine will be up and humming in full gear.
That transparent bullshit might have a faint ring of truth to it, though. While I kept myself up-to-date---even more so than during my job as a software engineer, to be honest---of course I haven't touched huge enterprise software projects, and of course I'm not up-to-date when it comes to the latest front-end JS framework pizzazz. But give me a week and my code spewing engine will be up and humming in full gear.
If I chose to stay in academia to pursue a postdoc, however, these recruitment persuasions would become increasingly difficult. Imagine I manage to score a postdoc of 3 years, or even 6, but meet a dead end after that and miss that tenure track by a hair. That'll mean it would have been nine+ years since I "_haven't touched development in general_". What then?