Are industrial doctors trained properly?

 

The New York Times recently had an article about the difficult path many PhDs need to walk to find a tenured position at a university or a renowned research institute. It is certainly true that if you want to work as professor at a highly ranked university in a highly competitive field such as astronomy or medicinal chemistry, you may need to accept life as a nomad for many years and work as post-doctoral fellow around the globe, with the risk that in the end “you miss the boat".