maybe it's not all in my head?

A friend sent me this link from THE about the complexities of being an academic in current times. I read it and breathed a sigh of relief - it's clearly not all in my head, these feelings of disconnection, dislocation, uneasy I feel about my place in the academic machine and in particular the department where I work. And as the weekend arrives, after a very disheartening engagement with my boss, where the realities of departmental priorities that so clearly seek to sideline and marginalise the positive contribution I was hoping to make, become abundantly clear to me, I'm relieved because of the perspective and possibilities my PhD experience has allowed me to see.