This situation isn't that much different from what most post-docs experience in academic R&D IMO.
- highly trained individuals
- neither staff nor student
- pay under industry level
- fixed term contracts
- little growth prospect but lottery tickets and politics
- requirement to move without support
- department shenanigans
Insult to injury here is the fact that many get suckered into sub-contracting as self-employed.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/12/esa-workers-face-a-maze-of-non-compete-clauses-and-service-contracts/
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