Slothrop
Tight but Polite
I did a pure maths PhD, then lectured part time at a local ex-poly for about a semester.
To be honest, I realized fairly early on in my PhD that I wasn't going to be a cutting-edge research superstar, and it didn't seem worth all the effort and stress of trying to get on the postdoc ladder just to do second division research. Sticking around lecturing at a low level would probably have been doable (since there are quite a lot of maths courses out there) and not too stressful, but wasn't really more attractive than getting a job in the real world.
To be honest, I realized fairly early on in my PhD that I wasn't going to be a cutting-edge research superstar, and it didn't seem worth all the effort and stress of trying to get on the postdoc ladder just to do second division research. Sticking around lecturing at a low level would probably have been doable (since there are quite a lot of maths courses out there) and not too stressful, but wasn't really more attractive than getting a job in the real world.