/sci/ - Science & Math

Brehs, at the age of 28, I now realize that my chances of doing something exceptional with my life are almost nil. I am painfully mediocre in every conceivable way.
How do you deal with this feeling?

Can /sci/ give an anon some advice?
I applied to for a PhD position at a top 50 university and got through two rounds of vetting. Now the prof wants to meet on Zoom. It's the first position I've ever applied for. Here's the catch, the work is mostly experimental and on a topic that I'm not particularly interested in. My expertise is in computational mechanics and that's where I'd like to focus. Now, I'm from a shithole and the monthly salary is more than what an engineer with no experience in my country (assuming I could even get a job in this economy) makes in 2 years. Also, if I don't find a position abroad in the next couple months then I'll have to do military service for at least a year and a half.

What should I do? Should I look at the position as just a job and forget about my interests? I don't want to be in school forever and do postdoc after postdoc, trying to find something I'd like to make a career out of, so this will probably be my first and only PhD.
Or should I wait and do the military service and try to get a position abroad then? How much will getting a PhD in an experimental field limit my chances at computational jobs?

>>12296827
I has a question.
If a single government ruled the world and enforced a mandatory 1 or 2 month lockdown by literally jailing people in their own homes, would the viruses that cause the common cold and influenza go extinct?

Could I learn everything on Khan Academy about calculus and know everything needed for calc classes

>>8778694
>is the fundamental driving force behind what facilitates and permeates work and progress across our entire society a meme?

>>6726877
>he hasn't moved on from the post 'high school nihilism phase' phase and thinks the current phase that he's in is the top most completely correct phase.

When you grow older buddy you will realize that your current stance is wrong and so you will go back into nihilism.