The profession has less trust in your science than in NIH-sponsored studies and is less likely to act on results from trials you sponsor, let alone conduct.

FORBES: A Plea For Open Science In Medicine

No, job security is not the only important factor, but in a profession with lower pay and less advancement options, benefits and job security are important.

FORBES: Ezra Klein on Reforming Teacher Unions

"The pressure to hire many new teachers to meet the goal of Universal Primary Education and replace teachers leaving the profession often lead to the recruitment of less qualified teachers or even to lower national standards, " adds Bernal.

UNESCO: Africa needs one million new teachers by 2015

HMOs to choose from, a mixed economy of for-profit and non-profit hospitals, and citizens less inclined than ever to accept whatever the medical profession condescends to offer.

ECONOMIST: For-profit medicine

They could have, but did not, expanded medical training by the 20 or 30% necessary to deal with our getting 20 or 30 % less work out of a soon to be majority female profession.

FORBES: The Problem With Female Doctors

Already %46 of new teachers leave the profession within five years, and now reformers want to make it even less appealing for teachers to make teaching a career.

FORBES: High Teacher Turnover Rates are a Big Problem for America’s Public Schools

Admittedly, as astronomers spend more time in front of computers and less time peering through telescopes, some of the joy of their profession will have been lost.

ECONOMIST: Mining the digital skies