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Do Research in what field(s), with what skill and budget? Doing historical research is pretty easy, if you're fluent in the relevant language(s), and have good
by bell-cot 2y ago
Do Research in what field(s), with what skill and budget?
Doing historical research is pretty easy, if you're fluent in the relevant language(s), and have good research skills and lots of time. And with the number of historians & history-adjacent professionals online these day - finding research-worthy questions would be fairly easy. Downside: "Research" probably means spending months meticulously picking through documents in an ill-organized national archive, or something similar. And at first, recognition (in anything like a serious professional journal) would be at the "mentioned & thanked" level.
Mathematical research is "easy" - if you're OMG-level talented. Famously, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan Otherwise, it's grueling hard work, with no guarantee that you'll ever discover anything worth publishing.
If you need access to "trophy" scientific equipment (NASA' James Webb telescope, CERN's LHC, etc.) - sorry, even big-name establishment insiders struggle to get that.
And if you're saying "do research" when you mean "receive research funding and get published"...sorry, but no. Up-through-the-ranks establishment insiders are struggling (and mostly failing) to get funded and published.