I grew up in an academic family with parents who worked in academia. I grew up listening to my parents' horror stories of how their colleagues would sabotage each other, or try to sabotage my parents. The university where they worked ended up forcefully retiring my mother without giving her warning, b/c a younger guy wanted her job. She'd been at her job there for 30 years.

Then one day she was told "this is your last day, here's your severance." Disgusting. Universities are notoriously political and undermine their teaching faculty, and give all the power to administration which is full of morally corrupt individuals. Just my personal experience.

I was sabotaged as a grad student by my dept. chair in my previous grad school program. So, I detest academic environments as potential workplaces. Even if you can get a job at a university, you have to watch your back literally all the time.