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Many professors are diagnosis mentally impaired. That is why they sought-after the ivory tower life where their mental impairment is praised as their being “unique” or eccentric. It is their safe room. They are overpaid and coddled “adult” snowflakes.

As a professor, I have to agree with this. The level of game playing and childish behavior you see in Academia is alarming. Most of these people went right from their PhD programs into Academia. Few know how the world works outside if it—and many trivialize it. I also think that the tenure system makes people a little crazy. In most organizations, people come and go. In Academia you can be stuck with the same people for decades. So if you have a beef with someone, it gets magnified. Lastly, professors are not part of a “team”. Rather, they are more like independent contractors competing with each other, even in the same Department. It is an interesting dynamic.

And me? I spent 23 years in the Air Force, so this is my second career. It really amazes me when I hear what some of my colleagues complain about. Even so, they are fundamentally smart people and could adapt to the outside world if they had to. But they do not have to.