It's worked out well, but it would have been fine regardless because my personality is tilted toward getting off on learning new shit and connecting disparate d

It's worked out well, but it would have been fine regardless because my personality is tilted toward getting off on learning new shit and connecting disparate dots. My absolute favorite part of science are the tools: learning how to use every tool available one and inventing new ones. Publishing papers is fun, but it's a slog (really for everyone). I much prefer reviewing and editing manuscripts as opposed to writing them and I get to do that now on a plurality of topics.