@grimalkina It was starting to head that way in scientific reasearch many years ago (late 90s) after getting a Ph. D. in chemistry.

There were many reasons I left that career, but one of the big ones was simply that in the first year of my first post-Ph. D. job, I felt that I had to learn twice as much that year as I did in any one prior, including one of the toughest STEM undergrad curricula in the country and the traditional "really rough first fscking year" of a Ph. D. program.

And had absolutely no time to stop, think, and rest.

I bailed out into software development, where that trend (amazingly enough) was fairly muted by comparison.