Speaking as a scientist, "don't think about it, don't care about it, just trust someone" is contrary to my nature. I was born with a burning desire to understa

Speaking as a scientist, "don't think about it, don't care about it, just trust someone" is contrary to my nature. I was born with a burning desire to understand. Everything. I just wish I could locate a group of like-minded people to work with. I've been somewhat dismayed to find that "the real world" consists mostly of people whose sole ambition (or sole reality) is to fulfill their current role, without ever analyzing what it is they are doing or striving to improve the overall project. Status is very important. I wish it weren't so. At my last job, I was using EC2 to devise solutions to problems that they truly believed were technically unsolvable --- but no one would listen to me, because I was a newcomer. Their faith in the senior technical engineer was absolute and unwavering, and the senior technical engineer believed it was unsolvable, so therefore it was, for all intents and purposes, unsolvable. (After all, nothing ever came of my research, because no one cared enough to listen, or had time to think about something other than their current, immediate goal.) Worse, they even became offended when I tried to research the "unsolvable" problem in my own spare time. Status really sucks.