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[desert_traveller]

The more unpleasant the job is, the farther away you try to get from it into the world of management or academia. Thus, theory and practice get ever more remote and disconnected from one another, and, as time passes by, instead of professional practice benefiting more and more from the findings of academic research and managerial experience, it instead only falls further behind them. This is quite different from professional fields where individuals operate by choice rather than by necessity, and where managers and researchers are quite keen to ground their operations in everyday practice. It is often unacknowledged, but people can aspire for a career in management or research for two markedly different reasons: either to get closer to the practice of their profession: to get right into it, or, on the contrary, to get as far away from it as possible: to get the hell out of it.

[twowheel]