I'm sure not all of you agree... especially you working stiffs out there that enjoy your jobs (and if you enjoy your job, that's great. Consider yourself lucky, you're in the minority).
Now that I've been away from that scene for 6 months, and I'm back to being myself, I can see that beyond the skills that I learned there, I was wasting my time jumping through hoops. I wasn't built for handling the politics of it all, I'm much happier in academia where I'm not (currently) as affected by the politics. Besides, if you do good science, in academia, the politics seem to work themselves out.
