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Doesn't the lack of intellectual challenge in your work stress you? I don't think I could do such a mundane job and still feel fulfilled. (I mean that without a

by SeoxyS 12y ago

Doesn't the lack of intellectual challenge in your work stress you? I don't think I could do such a mundane job and still feel fulfilled. (I mean that without an ounce of judgement—just remarking about the shift from academia / high education to "unskilled" labor)

hashbanged 12y ago
It sounds like being a postdoc stressed him.
- shiven 12y ago
  Being a PostDoc has its highlights, but mostly, it sucks, especially in life sciences, due to pathetic pay, unstructured hours and the suckiness is generally impossible to convey to someone who has never been one. Just 'cause it's research don't mean it's rainbows and ponies. Source, I'm one.
lambdaphage 12y ago
The bottom 95% of lab work is pretty intellectually comparable to driving, navigating and possibly talking at the same time.
dnautics 12y ago
during my free time I've been playing around with julia, entered (and failed) at a bioinformatics contest (I have zero bioinformatics background), doing a bit of toddling around with ML, algorithmic trading, and I'm doing a lot of behind the scenes stuff on my nonprofit. Shortly, I'm going to be filming a web series called "sciencerides", where I take rides with and interview science and math folk. Although I fully intend to interview grad students, postdocs and undergrads in addition to "more well know scientists", I've already got a commitment from Frank Tangherlini, who is a noted physicist and inventor of the "Tangherlini transforms" which are a take on the Lorentz transformations but presuming the speed of light might be anisotropic. I think it is likely, I will be able to interview Hamilton Smith, the discoverer of restriction enzymes, and Clyde Hutchison, inventor of site-directed mutagenesis. I'm also going to try to interview Kristen Baldwin, who is the first scientist to clone mice from adult neurons, Floyd Romesburg, who made the first organism that replicated with nonstandard DNA bases, and Douglas Prasher, who is the unsung hero of flourescent proteins. Actually to me the most important interview that I'm going to do, however, is one that I have for sure lined up, which is by a mathematics teacher who has had impressive success teaching underprivileged, at-risk middle school students and completely turned around their performance in mathematics.

by SeoxyS 12y ago

hashbanged 12y ago

It sounds like being a postdoc stressed him.

shiven 12y ago
Being a PostDoc has its highlights, but mostly, it sucks, especially in life sciences, due to pathetic pay, unstructured hours and the suckiness is generally impossible to convey to someone who has never been one. Just 'cause it's research don't mean it's rainbows and ponies. Source, I'm one.

lambdaphage 12y ago

The bottom 95% of lab work is pretty intellectually comparable to driving, navigating and possibly talking at the same time.

dnautics 12y ago

during my free time I've been playing around with julia, entered (and failed) at a bioinformatics contest (I have zero bioinformatics background), doing a bit of toddling around with ML, algorithmic trading, and I'm doing a lot of behind the scenes stuff on my nonprofit. Shortly, I'm going to be filming a web series called "sciencerides", where I take rides with and interview science and math folk. Although I fully intend to interview grad students, postdocs and undergrads in addition to "more well know scientists", I've already got a commitment from Frank Tangherlini, who is a noted physicist and inventor of the "Tangherlini transforms" which are a take on the Lorentz transformations but presuming the speed of light might be anisotropic. I think it is likely, I will be able to interview Hamilton Smith, the discoverer of restriction enzymes, and Clyde Hutchison, inventor of site-directed mutagenesis. I'm also going to try to interview Kristen Baldwin, who is the first scientist to clone mice from adult neurons, Floyd Romesburg, who made the first organism that replicated with nonstandard DNA bases, and Douglas Prasher, who is the unsung hero of flourescent proteins. Actually to me the most important interview that I'm going to do, however, is one that I have for sure lined up, which is by a mathematics teacher who has had impressive success teaching underprivileged, at-risk middle school students and completely turned around their performance in mathematics.