Academic politics are a pain, as is having to survive on "soft" money - grants, etc. One option that a computer scientist should consider is to fast track the process to some extent by looking at computational biology/bioinformatics, which is currently a hot topic; there are jobs and a reasonable amount of funding around. You would need to study either biology or bioinformatics, though.
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Academic politics are a pain, as is having to survive on "soft" money - grants, etc. One option that a computer scientist should consider is to fast track the process to some extent by looking at computational biology/bioinformatics, which is currently a hot topic; there are jobs and a reasonable amount of funding around. You would need to study either biology or bioinformatics, though.