I've met at least two Ecology professors who bring up the idea that, for a population at replacement rate, there's only one new faculty job for each current faculty member's students. One.
I've been in several departments that are very welcoming to industry and non-profits. What they tend not to be welcoming toward is the idea that, because you're not headed to academia, you can either half-ass or rush your research.
I would actually argue that for each current faculty members job, there are <1 jobs, because many of these jobs will be cut completely by next generation.
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I've met at least two Ecology professors who bring up the idea that, for a population at replacement rate, there's only one new faculty job for each current faculty member's students. One.
I've been in several departments that are very welcoming to industry and non-profits. What they tend not to be welcoming toward is the idea that, because you're not headed to academia, you can either half-ass or rush your research.
I would actually argue that for each current faculty members job, there are <1 jobs, because many of these jobs will be cut completely by next generation.
Hence the "at replacement" assumption. They usually also point out that even if the field is doubling in size, that only moves up the number to 2.