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What about working on stuff that no one will care about in the immediate future for various reasons, but that you definitely consider important to study?
by Rerarom 7y ago
What about working on stuff that no one will care about in the immediate future for various reasons, but that you definitely consider important to study?
- barry-cotter 7y agoTo a first approximation that describes most research on literature. I’m sure there are other fields where that’s true but most academic press books have a first printing run of under a thousand and don’t have a second edition.
- arethuza 7y agoDon't get me wrong - I loved the area I worked in, I think I just saw a bit too much of how the sausage is made in "big science" projects and I got rather disillusioned by the approach that seemed to be required to succeed at a "management" level in academia and decided that as a long term career goal it didn't interest me at all. NB It probably didn't help that I spent 6 years working on symbolic AI at the start of the 90's at it was becoming increasingly apparent to me (correctly as it turned out) that this fundamental approach didn't really work no matter how fascinating it was.
- Rerarom 7y agoI get what you're saying. Pure math is much more palatable. Less "big science" and more individual/small-team work.