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Man, I'm sorry to break it to you in this way, but it's up to you to make your life and research interesting. Don't waste time with the bullshit. Try to solve r

• bowsamic 4y ago
  I’m simply not interested anymore
  • martopix 4y ago
    I feel you. And you know what, it's really ok. It's difficult to accept because sometimes our disciplines have become parts of our identity. But the moment I accepted that I didn't need to love it, and I could move on and do many exciting things with my good education, life became so much better. Enjoy the rest of your postdoc. Do what you need to do without stressing too much. Also look at the other things in it that you may like: perhaps working with students, perhaps writing an open source software, perhaps volunteering for some extra teaching duty if you hate research, etc. A postdoc can be many things. This is what I'm doing now. And if you can't wait, start looking for jobs and then quit. Looking for jobs can in itself be uplifting. Sorry for the preachy tone -- I don't know your situation and I'm more telling you about mine. In the end that's how I managed and it went ok.
• ClumsyPilot 4y ago
  > Try to solve real problems All the engineers working on AdTech and surveillance capitalism solving real problems with billion dollar budgets All the PhDs researching new physics and fighting for scraps of funding be losers /s
  • AstixAndBelix 4y ago
    Because when you find a new law of physics you can't patent it. But if you make a newfangled device thanks to that new physics law you can put a nice patent on it and earn millions