In academia, you can do the project having flexibility in the timing. Sometimes i used to go to lab at nights and finish my work. You can extend the deadlines depending on the time taken by the work to complete. This is where your personal efforts matter a lot and to be more responsible in completing the project since there is no one to give you deadline. For a person who has passion in academia, then doing things which no one has done before, or making pilot studies and carrying out experiments to find out what is the result etc would give lots of job satisfaction over making money. I agree money is important at the end, but at the same time job satisfaction is very necessary to keep oneself happy and going.

In industry, the amount of work you do will be noticed daily. But in academia, results is the one which will fetch you your work rewards (like more publications, fundings etc). Industry gives you real world experience and helps you grow overall. Industry is promising in improving ones career at reasonable time and also to make money.