I think that it's good to pursue your interests, no matter how trivial (so long as they don't harm others, I suppose); however, it helps to work in a field payi

I think that it's good to pursue your interests, no matter how trivial (so long as they don't harm others, I suppose); however, it helps to work in a field paying you to do just that. Bell Labs was notorious for having a laissez-faire approach to managing its researchers. Now we have to resort to spending company time posting on news sites and browsing wikipedia.