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11350714 No.11350714 [Reply] [Original]

How do you "check" if you have good potential to make research that will be actually useful and impact the world? I don't want to put years of effort only to realize that it would have been better spent in the industry.

>> No.11350762

>>11350714
do you enjoy doing research and solving new problems? If yes, go for it. If no, don't go for it.

Here's a quick test if you don't know the answer. Ask yourself a question that you don't know the answer to and which would not be trivial to look up the answer to. Then find a satisfying answer to the question. Did you enjoy the process of finding the answer?

>> No.11350814

>>11350762
I don't know. I enjoy research and theoretical stuff but not really for the sake of it, instead I like it when I apply to some problem and get useful results.

>> No.11350819

>>11350814
then go into industry

>> No.11350823

>>11350819
B-but I fear ending up as a codemonkey doing repetitive shit instead of working on nice problems.

>> No.11350824

>>11350823

Then be good at it, we don't have the technology to tell you if you'll succeed yet

>> No.11351026

>>11350823
your other choice is labrat. So what's it gonna be, codemonkey or labrat?