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[Breaking Bad] How does a Genius Chemist with a PhD end up as a high school chemistry teacher?

Shouldn't Walt at least be a university professor? Even in season 1 the people at Elliots party thought so.

Seems to me the biggest culprit of his turn to crime after cancer is the education system instead of the healthcare one.
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Walt could have been a university professor. He could have done work in corporate research. But his ego wouldn't let him play well with others, he couldn't handle the politicking and politely working your way up through the system.