/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.6767969]

What's your dream job or position, /sci/? Are you doing anything to get you closer to it?

Pic very related. I know, unrealistic as fuck, but I said DREAM job.

[Anonymous No.6767972]

I wanna be a recording musician in space

[Anonymous No.6767983]

>>6767969

I'm not far enough into the field to know exactly where I want to end up, but something along the lines of DBA, Data Scientist, or something in that vein. I moved from Shanghai, China to San Francisco, CA to take a certificate course at Berkely. I'm 30 and am starting almost from zero (my major in uni had nothing to do with CS), but I try to just keep my head down and study like mad, because I know there are people that are coming in at 40 and would kill to have my energy and small number of other responsibilities, just as I would kill to be doing this at 20 instead. Anybody with advice or encouragement for a hard working 30-year-old CS novice, I am *all ears.*

pic related. It's what COMPUTER SCIENCE looks like, according to google image search.

[Anonymous No.6767992]

hoping to become an astrophysicist , i'm aware i'll probably never become one ,but i hope to at least land somewhere in research..

For the moment i'm getting a degree in physics and doing good

[Anonymous No.6767991]

>>6767969
I don't know about dream job, but being a professor is a position I admire. I'm currently studying mathematics so I think I'm on the right track.

[Anonymous No.6767993]

>>6767983
>dba
>data scientist
If you aren't spending your time trying to advance humanity to the stars (and/or the singularity) you're wasting everyone's time and resources.

[Anonymous No.6767998]

>>6767993

Guilty. But it's my time and they're my resources to waste. Also, I'm really freaking good at this stuff, in a way that I haven't been at *everything* else I've ever done. Seriously, if I had one call to make on a tachyonic antitelephone, forget 9/11, I'd tell high school me to go buy a CS book and dive in.

[Anonymous No.6768000]

Same as you OP. Doing Earth and space physics engineering along with flight school next to it. 3´rd semester at uni and currently doing instrumental rating on single engine. Age 19.

Maybe one day we will meet on the iss.

[Anonymous No.6768002]

>>6767983

Ugh, when will normies understand that binary is the base-2 numerical system? simple as that ughhhhhh

[Anonymous No.6768005]

>>6767998
Wish you all the best anon, you seem to have your shit together

[Anonymous No.6768013]

>>6767969
Technologically enhanced god-emperor of the solar system

I'm working on making machine phase systems a reality.

[Anonymous No.6768038]

I want to be an astronaut so badly.
I feel like my life is pointless if I don't go to space.
I was born for it.

[Anonymous No.6768044]

I want to work at the Chicago Field Museum and fuck Emily Graslie.

Mostly the first thing.

[Anonymous No.6768045]

>>6768038
>I feel like my life is pointless if I don't go to space.
OP here, god damn it, do I know that feel

[Anonymous No.6768051]

>>6768045
I'm so glad someone knows that feeling, I've tried to explain it so many times and nobody ever understands. It is like a calling.
Do you want to be a commander/pilot or mission specialist?

[Anonymous No.6768053]

>>6768005

Thanks for kind words

[Anonymous No.6768060]

>>6768051
Mission specialist, I really don't think I could make it to commander mostly because I'm from a third world country with a pretty much nonexistant chair force. Also I think the one thing that could really strike my dream down is the fact you need to be an American citizen to sign up for the position, and unless you have family there (which I don't) that takes about a decade to get if you're extremely lucky to get in via a job offer. But what the hell, I can't die without at least trying.

[Anonymous No.6768063]

>>6768060
See, I feel like I'm playing life on easy mode.
I've got quad citizenship (including US) and grew up in the US. I'm 18 and I have a pilot's licence and have an engineering physics major at the best school in the country for it.
I just want to make it so bad.

[Anonymous No.6768067]

>>6768051
Not him, but I want to e a civilian in space. Not an astronaut, not a researcher. I want to live in a post-job society on a Mars colony. I want to raise my child in a luscious Martian rainforest city. I want to see two moons in the night sky. I want to become an immortal digital being that creates other beings with artistic fluency.

>my emotions are cosmically insignificant
>cosmos makes me sentient
>I will die sad and alone on this planet

[Anonymous No.6768070]

>>6768063
God damn it, wanna trade lives?

It seems to me you have everything going for you to make it, man, keep going strong.

[Anonymous No.6768074]

>>6768067
God those astronaut feels.
It is like growing up in a small midwest town with a couple hundred people and knowing you'll never be able to leave aside from a one in a 500 million chance. Sure, there is an Italian restaurant, but wouldn't you rather see italy?
It all feels so hollow and empty if I have to live and die here.
>>6768070
Whenever I'm struggling I try to remember that I'm on the way. I hope you make it, anon. I hope that one day we work together on that space station. I look forward to it. I'll meet you in low earth orbit, buddy.

[Anonymous No.6768079]

I just want to make cool shit with my knowledge in electrical engineering

[Anonymous No.6768094]

>>6768063
Eurofag here, our manned program is almost non-existing.

Ariane 6 is a stillborn rocket, and we are spending a shitload of money instead of doing real stuff. (not only manned, but i mean, we are twice as munerous as the USA and our funding is like, 1/4 of NASA's funding ?)

p-please anon, save me a seat on your rocket ;_;

[Anonymous No.6768102]

>>6768074
Thanks lucky anon, I'll do my best and more, then we'll see each other up there.

[Anonymous No.6768107]

>>6768094
>>6768102
Of course, anons.
If this were /fit/ I'd say "we're all gonna make it brah".
Good luck and godspeed.

[Anonymous No.6768121]

>>6768094
>Eurofag here, our manned program is almost non-existing.
>we are twice as munerous as the USA and our funding is like, 1/4 of NASA's funding

I thought Sci was better than pol on facts. Guess I was wrong. ESA isn´t buildt the same way as NASA it´s a collaboration between multiple agencies from various countries across the EU.

There are currently 3 people on the iss. 2 of them are european.

[Anonymous No.6768122]

>>6768121
maybe he means a specific country in the EU

[Anonymous No.6768125]

>>6768079
Me as well. All I wanted to do since I was young was make electrical discharge just for the sake of it

[Anonymous No.6768128]

>>6768094

It's not foolish of them to spend less, though, is it? I mean knowing that NASA will develop it anyway? Let NASA do the development legwork, then study their findings, hire their engineers, and build your own stuff. The US will keep its superiority, but at 4x the cost. Meanwhile, eurospace makes use of the best advancements for a fraction of the cost.

[Anonymous No.6768138]

>>6768128
>The US will keep its superiority

Begging moscow to use their spacecraft for a ride onto the iss. Yeah sure very superior Joe.

[Anonymous No.6768146]

I want to design and sell somewhat esoteric speakers. I've got a good niche for what I want to do, but I need about $20k more in capitol to produce because transducers from China kinda suck. Don't want to kickstarter.

[Anonymous No.6768148]

>>6768121
There is an obligatory part for each state members in the ESA budget, and this part is not a collaboration, it's a unique program for every members of the ESA. (And even if you count national programs, that's not really worth it per capita)

And only one astronaut is actually european, and for the next mission (25/09/2014) none of them is european.

[Anonymous No.6768151]

Designing missiles to bomb the shit of wherever needs to be bombed

[Anonymous No.6768153]

>>6768138

Oh, you~

[Anonymous No.6768154]

>>6767969
How does one find what one wants to do? Usually for me it changes depending on what movie I watched.

[Anonymous No.6768159]

I want to be the dictator of an irrelevant oil producing country. Is that too much to ask?

In any case, my chances of becoming an astronaut are 0, so I'm currently working on making my own space agency. I'm still at the phase where I need to make several billion dollars though.

[Anonymous No.6768160]

>>6767969
I want to be paid to exist. Enough to go anywhere in the world that I want, whenever I want. I would do pro bono work in labs across the world as I see fit, whenever my interest in a subject waxes. When I get bored I'll move on. Then I'd build my own home lab and spend time doing experiments that crossed disciplines.

[Anonymous No.6768167]

>>6768160
Hey, that is what I do, aside from the traveling and freedom and pay.

[Anonymous No.6768174]

>>6768160
>>6768167
I forgot to mention that my life's work would be engineering a deadly virus to eradicate anyone who listens to hip-hop or rap.

[Anonymous No.6768175]

>>6768174
so ebola?

[Anonymous No.6768177]

>>6768175
better, it would also kill wiggers

[Anonymous No.6768179]

>>6768154

Look at what your natural strengths are, and then try to find a job where having those strengths are an advantage. You can still do whatever you want to do, but if there's something you'd naturally be good at, at least give it a try.

That's the story of me and CS, by the way. I was an English teacher, trying to understand why my job wasn't satisfying me. Someone asked me to define my strengths, which I feel are my ability and enjoyment in organizing and optimizing a process, my attention to detail, and my ability to explain things clearly. DBA and related fields hit all three of those things. I looked into it and couldn't believe how interesting it all was to me. Now I *choose* to read CS books instead of watching video or playing games, and you'd need to know me to know how nuts that is for me, but that's been the 14 months of my life. Here's hoping you find that thing that just clicks with you, anon.

[Anonymous No.6768183]

>>6768179
I don't really think I have any. Are there tests that can tell one where one's strengths lie?

[Anonymous No.6768185]

>>6768183
Fuck strengths. What do you enjoy doing? Find a way to get paid for doing it.

[Anonymous No.6768188]

>>6768177
Ebola kills wiggers too
they just have to get infected.

[Anonymous No.6768195]

>>6768188
I wish there was a realistic way to base lethality off of neuronal capacity.

[Anonymous No.6768200]

>>6768183

You definitely do have strengths. Maybe spend a longer period of time thinking about about what they are. I'm saying just keep it in the back of your mind for like, a week, minimum. The jobs that exist are so numerous and varied it's crazy. No matter what you're good at, there is somebody somewhere in need of your talents, though some polishing might be needed first.

You can start by listing specific activities you're good at, and then look for trends across them. Like with me, it was something as dumb as, "I can make lunch really quickly and it's always perfect." Well why is that? It's because I optimized the process and I pay attention to detail. "I get the things I ask for from my manager." Because I'm charismatic or handsome? No, because I explain things well. I'm oversimplifying, but you get the idea.

[Anonymous No.6768203]

>>6768200

In addition to this, I also have to agree with this:

>>6768185

You'll never go wrong doing what you love, IF you can dedicate yourself to becoming excellent at it,

[Anonymous No.6768209]

>>6768195
Me too.
Kill off all the morons.
Hitler had the right idea but the wrong demographic.

[Anonymous No.6768213]

>>6768185
Well if I had something productive I would be enjoying doing I wouldn't have asked that question.

>>6768200
>The jobs that exist are so numerous and varied it's crazy

That's the thing. Is it even possible to try out everything and find out what one's strengths are this way? Also how does one tell if something is ones strength? One can't do really good at something without practice and with practice one will obviously get better.

[Anonymous No.6768227]

>>6767969
I would like to be the shadow director of a multi-billion dollar corporation, not the official owner but rather the one pulling all the strings.

I would channel a large portion of the revenue into the pockets of shortsighted politicians in return for blank checks, future services. And with the political influence this would in time give me, I would cull the competition, and expand.

But I guess such an empire would eventually crumble under its own weight. Too much administration for just one man, and loyalty is as always hard to come by.

[Anonymous No.6768238]

While we're talking about dark desires...
My dream is to be a lead scientist under a fascist government, working on whatever projects I want with as much funding and test subjects I could want for anything.
Chemical weapons? No problem. Human cloning and gene manipulation? We don't care about pathetic ethics.
I could learn more in a decade than a century of research under ethics.
>tfw glorious leader will not surprise you by coming into the lab
>tfw glorious leader will never commend you on your work and tell you how proud he is.
>tfw glorious leader will never put his hand on your shoulder and tell you that together, the two of you will usher in a new age of mankind.
:(

[Anonymous No.6768239]

>What's your dream job or position, /sci/?

I'd like to be a group leader or director in the biotech industry, specifically structural biology.

>Are you doing anything to get you closer to it?

I'm in grad school for biophysics. Started my first year a few weeks ago, so just getting into my coursework and rotations.

Long, long way to go, not even really thinking about that yet. Trying to get through my classes and rotations right now, thinking about labs to join.

[Anonymous No.6768242]

Do dream jobs really exist? I would like to be a cool scientist that invents world changing things alone in his lab but in reality one works on less exiting things for a very long time in a team while dependant on funding.

[Anonymous No.6768287]

become a professor and be very knowledgeable

i also want to have sex a lot

and be happy

/end

[Anonymous No.6768315]

>>6768227
killa killa
vs
attack on titan

wtf man explain this image

[Necromancer No.6768321]

>>6767969

Currently? The job I am aiming for is one in Analytical Statistics.

>can work from home
>can work at my own pace
>can take on as much or as little work as I want/is available
>can make a lot of money (Working the same days as a UK teacher I would earn £117,000 per annum).
>get to see new data all the time
>get to be an important, interesting part of research
>find the topic interesting and engaging

My dream life would be to have a nice house in a quiet area somewhere relatively secluded, but with good internet access and stuff, where I can do my statistics at home and then also grab my backpack and go out and hike/camp with my dog at a moment's notice by just walking out the front door. Doing independent analytical statistics via e-mail (Basically everything my favourite lecturer does when he isn't lecturing) gives me the freedom to do that, so I would have to say that this is my dream job.

[Anonymous No.6768330]

>>6768315
shitty homos with equally shitty taste in anime

[Anonymous No.6768337]

>>6768045
>mfw Type 1 Diabetes
>tfw will never go to space due to random bullshit disease

Life is suffering

[Anonymous No.6768356]

>>6768337
sry mayne :(

[Anonymous No.6768357]

>>6768337
I think I can safely assume that no one in this thread will ever go to space even if they are healthy so don't feel too bad.

[Anonymous No.6768373]

>tfw too tall to be an astronaut

i guess id like to find some chemist position where you still work in lab but lead a group. Dont want to be stuck writing proposals and managing stuff but id also like to be paid well enough

[Anonymous No.6768386]

>>6768357
Just because you won't become successful, that doesn't mean some people might.

[Anonymous No.6768563]

>>6768045
>>6768051

Dammit. I thought I was the only one. Feel with me, brothers.

[Anonymous No.6768579]

Forester

[Anonymous No.6768586]

>>6768563
dat feel tho

[Anonymous No.6768595]

>>6768315
lonely anime fans+ too much time+ really good drawing skills = shitty anime crossovers

>>6768330
kill la kill is pretty good, attack on titan fellates Balaenoptera musculus phallus.

[Anonymous No.6768615]

>>6768586

Currently feeling. Can you feel them, too?

[Anonymous No.6768620]

>>6767969

Can't decide between urban planner, structural engineer or architect. I would need to know more about each profession and what really constitutes the job to make an educated decision.

[Anonymous No.6768627]

>>6768615
I was the poster of the second post you replied to

[Anonymous No.6768637]

>>6768038
you're me...

I'm studying aerospace and I'd go all the way, do anything to go to space, christ to go to another planet I'd give my life, but guess what? I'm 6 foot 4 inches, one inch too tall

[Anonymous No.6768641]

If we haven't landed a man on Mars for some reason before I die, I would want to be sent there, even if I knew fully well that I would die alone on its surface.
That's been my dream forever. You know, going to other planets, exploring space. But I know that I was born too early to do that, and it kind of stings. However, in my perfect world I'd still want to at least be on another planet.
Space fascinates me, and knowing that I would be helping mankind expand beyond this doomed planet would allow me to die happy.
And, you know, if that wouldn't be a thing I'd want to be an astronaut in general. Unfortunately, being 6'7" in the ISS is kind of against the rules, so I can't do that...

[Anonymous No.6768645]

>All these guys that are too tall to make the cut into NASA
I'd never felt better in my life about being 5'5

[Anonymous No.6768658]

>>6768641
I'd go on a one way trip to mars today if they asked me, I know that feel anon.

Would there be anything more glorious in the span of human existence than to spend your last moments alive on the surface of a planet no other human has stepped on and the last thing you see is the earth, hanging there in the distance, almost like you could reach out and touch it.

Gives me chills

[Anonymous No.6768660]

>>6768645
you're just barely above the minimum

[Anonymous No.6768668]

>>6768658
Images like this make me want to visit Mars so, so much.
Nobody around me cares about space. They care more about NASCAR, football... like, I don't get it.
That's why I love the internet. I can find people like you, anon, people who agree with me.

[Anonymous No.6768669]

>>6768660
Yup, but still in. Anyway, the advantage of us manlets in this will go away once we have a functioning artificial gravity system and freefall time is minimized.

[Anonymous No.6768715]

>>6768668
I know that feel anon, I know that feel

Maybe you should take this, you'll learn a lot about yourself I think, be sure to read the type overview when you're done.

I'm going to bet right now you're an INTP or close to that.

http://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test

[Anonymous No.6768851]

>>6767969

Mine's a two-parter. I want to get at least a master's in theoretical physics (haven't decided what specifically yet, I have interests in particle, quantum, and astrophysics) and work somewhere such as a branch of CERN or NASA's JPL. I also want to get at least a master's in mechanical engineering and open a sort of garage or shop where I build robotics, things like vehicles with unique methods of locomotion (such as bi-, tri-, and quadropedal mechs and treaded vehicles), exoskeletons/powersuits, possibly even aero- or spacecraft. To this end, I'm planning on entering a tech school nearby come next spring for the master's in mechanical engineering. Apparently they delve into nanotechnology as well, which is also fascinating, so that's a bonus.

>inb4 muh unrealistic escapism fantasies and whatnot

I'm not talking Mechwarrior or Halo levels of walkers and suits, I'm talking legitimate, relatively low-tech robotics and transportation. I just like the thought of working with and building these things, and I think x-pedal movement and treads are fascinating. Wheels have been around for ages and are boring, we need something else to spice up our travel life.

[Anonymous No.6769746]

>>6767969
if yours unrealistic, how about that?

I want to fight death, by finding a life extension method.

[Anonymous No.6769777]

Geologist. I don't really have a specific job title in mind, really I'm only interested in research. I'd like it to be private sector though.

No, I'm nowhere near it. Fucked up college when I was 16 by never attending. I'd like to get back into education, but I don't have enough money to support myself.

[Anonymous No.6769899]

bump for interest

[Anonymous No.6771553]

dreams are die?

[Anonymous No.6771601]

>>6767969

To breath for a vast amount of money so I may fund things that include other jobs and positions I may have.

[Anonymous No.6771633]

>>6768851
I felt the same way but I didn't want to stay in uni that long so I went with a electrical engineering major with a physics minor. It won't give me robotics knowledge but I can make neat electronics

[Anonymous No.6772379]

>>6771633

I get what you're saying. I'm feeling a bit pensive about going back to school, especially for the ~10 or so years I'll need for two master's. I really want this, though, and I think I can do it, so I'm going to try.

I guess this doesn't really count as my dream job if we're including unrealistic expectations - this is just the thing I most want to do that's actually possible. If I could, I'd want to spend as much time as possible exploring the universe, learning as much as possible about it, perhaps even finding a way to access other timelines and universes (assuming there are others). A good example of a perfect scenario would be uploading my mind into a computerised robot ship and spending millions upon billions of years sailing between the stars and amassing data on everything of interest, unravelling the secrets of the universe.

[Anonymous No.6772388]

All I need is:
• A cot.
• A corner.
• Canned Food
• A treadmill would be nice.
• Oh, and a view for enrichment purposes.

So basically I want to be an astronaut.

I'm not sure that one can plan on being an astronaut these days though. All you can really do I guess is get a PhD and hope there is still a manned space program by the age they might need you as a mission specialist.

[Anonymous No.6772399]

>>6768013
You realize that you can't be a god-emperor until you die (or something like dying), right?

[Anonymous No.6772439]

I just want to be a DJ but I also don't want to live with heroin addicts for the rest of my life

[Anonymous No.6772458]

I want to design military weapons systems.

[Anonymous No.6772463]

I want make things go boom.

[Anonymous No.6772472]

>>6772463
>things go boom inc

[Anonymous No.6772480]

I always felt I was born in the wrong time period. I should have been sailing into uncharted waters looking for adventure or charging through space to find exotic planets and lifeforms. How the shit do I do that now? Life is boring. Damn it.

[Anonymous No.6772493]

>>6772480
>exotic lifeforms
Chances are, there's unknown species of arachnids within 50 feet of where you're sitting.

[Anonymous No.6772498]

>>6767969
Dream job would be roller coaster designer and no I'm not doing anything to get closer to it because I'm not in engineering and even if I was in engineering, I probably wouldn't get the job.

[Anonymous No.6772505]

Dream job:

Supercomputer designer.

I am an architect at law school, but I have a passion for servers guess I never had the balls to be as nerdy as I really am.

[Anonymous No.6772513]

I want my ashes to be scattered into the Earth's atmosphere from low earth orbit

[Anonymous No.6772518]

>>6772505
>supercomputer designer
Learn MPI.
It's not so bad.

[Anonymous No.6772524]

I wanna work at a nuclear enrichment or reprocessing plant.

The actinides are the tightest elements on the periodic table and I have 0 chance of getting to handle them until I get a job in the industry

[Anonymous No.6772559]

Dream job:

Genetic engineer, with a focus on bioinformatics. Rather than create new drugs to treat disease, I'd like to help design genetic code that will remove the underlying cause of the disease (although cancer is one area of interest, one could go so far as to say that aging is a disease as well). At the moment, I'm studying biomedical engineering in order to make this dream a reality.

[Anonymous No.6772565]

>>6772493
I appreciate you making me look like a jackass.

[Anonymous No.6772573]

>>6772480

I knoiw that feel, anon. I can't help but feel I was born a thousand years or so too early. I've always felt like an anachronism. :c

[Anonymous No.6772589]

I wanna drink beer and play banjo in a run down ghost town somewhere in Nevada, maybe make some cash from scrap or owning a trade post flipping cars and random shit, and maybe I'll read a few books while I'm at it. Life is good

[Anonymous No.6772595]

>>6772480
One day, Earth will be a pale shadow of its former self and humanity will number in the trillions; most of which will live in confined, utilitarian space habitats. That will be the state of humanity from that point on. We will live on the foreign shores of alien worlds longer than we were hunter gatherers in Africa. And all the while humans will search the sky for a blue dot and wonder what it must have been like living on the world you evolved on, the world you were born for; to be able to walk through fields of grass that share your genetic code, grass that you are related to; to live on a world that doesn't require constant supervision to maintain habitability, a world that takes care of you…

Don’t get me wrong, I’d love nothing more than to walk across the surface of Mars. I’d jump at the chance to take a one way trip to the red planet if it was offered to me. I love space! However, just because space is amazing and just because humans are not exploring it doesn't mean the age we live in isn't just as amazing.

[Anonymous No.6772598]

>>6772573
I can't think of any way to suppress this misplacement. Time machines better come along within a few decades, otherwise my life will be completely miserable.

[Anonymous No.6772600]

>>6772480
>wished to live in Colombian era
That sounds horrible. The idea of living at any point in history before antibiotics and vaccinations seems horrible.

[Anonymous No.6772602]

>>6772595

The grass is always greener...

>>6772598

I'm >>6768851 so at least I've found something interesting enough to keep me going. Despite my love and interest for physics and mechanical engineering, however, I still fall into massive depressive slumps from time to time as I feel that "lack of belonging" and the desire to know, to understand, to explore. Sehnsucht is a terrible, terrible thing.

captcha usefulness diesart

[Anonymous No.6772603]

>>6772595
I read this RIGHT after I posted below you. I know what you mean, but I just need to explore. I want to discover new places and witness something completely new, something nobody else has seen. Its hard to explain, but obviously you at least somewhat understand.

[Anonymous No.6772609]

>Dream Job. Paleontologist or Geologist, either working for a university of museum. Always loved prehistoric life since I was a kid, obviously dinosaurs but now I'm more interested in Paleo-environments and extinctions
>Doing anything to get closer to it? Getting undergrad in Geology, will probably go into Environmental Geology or to grad school.

[Anonymous No.6772611]

>>6772609

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_impactor

The K/Pg impactor has always fascinated me, but not for the same reasons paleontology is your thing, I imagine.

[Anonymous No.6772617]

>Dream Job.
Geologist or Paleontologist. Either working for a university or museum. I have always been fascinated by the prehistoric past and life, obviously always loved Dinosaurs (pic related, cried like a bitch when he died) but now more interested in Paleo-environments and extinctions.
>Doing anything to get closer to it?
Getting undergrad in Geology, will probably go into Environmental Geology and/or go to grad school.

[Anonymous No.6772618]

I want to study fish, or reptiles, or insects, or something. There's still a lot of stuff out there to be discovered, and the best part of it is that scientists still get to go to the far ends of the Earth to find new species. Traveling though the Amazon looking for undiscovered insects would be heaven. Those jobs are really fucking hard to get, though.

[Anonymous No.6772619]

>>6772603
There are many different things and ways to explore in this day and age. Obviously you can take up a science. Also keep in mind that most of the ocean isn't explored. We are still discovering large mammals we've never seen before. The ocean isn't just a curiosity either. As humanity uses up the cheaply accessible non-renewable resources on the continental plates the resources in the ocean plates will become increasingly enticing.

One last thing to keep in mind is that we may be the most important generation in the history of humanity. We are a the pinnacle of human achievement and there are many oncoming precipices that if we don't avoid will lead us to ruin and eventual extinction. We are the generattion that decides whether humanity will live for another hundred years, thousand years, or trillion years. Each of us is one of the most important humans that will EVER live.

[Anonymous No.6772625]

>>6772611
I deleted that post because I accidentally green texted everything but reposted it right below you. What makes you so interested in the K/Pg extinction?

[Anonymous No.6772627]

>>6772619
Wow, dude. You honestly make me feel much more hopeful. You are a damn decent man.

[Anonymous No.6772633]

>>6772625

Mostly the immense energies unleashed during the impact event, and the impact event itself. As scary as it is to think about something that huge smashing into the Earth and nearly wiping out all life, it's still amazing on a purely objective level that a single object that just happened to randomly float into our solar system could play such a large role in our history as a species and have such a huge impact (no pun intended) on the development of life on Earth

[Anonymous No.6772643]

>>6767969
Uh
Buddha or theoretical physicist.

[Anonymous No.6772651]

>>6772627
Thanks. Humanism is a hell of a drug, or at least my form of humanism is. I can't speak for anyone else.

If humanism were Christianity, I'd be called a Bible thumper. I don't understand why there are so many vocal misanthropes out there and seemingly so few people who recognize how awesome humanity is. The spirit and potential of humanity is what gives my life meaning... Hope that doesn't all sound existentially overbearing on my part. We all get up in the morning for different reasons and I don't presume my reasons are any better than anyone else's.

[Anonymous No.6772653]

>>6767969
mech eng maybe work for solar power if the earth still exists in 2 years when i can finish my BS

[Anonymous No.6772656]

Actuary/data analyst. Mechatronics engineer. Pharmaceutical chemist.

[Anonymous No.6772663]

>>6772643
>>6772653

muh niggas!

>>6772651

I'll admit I get pretty misanthropic at times, in a Timon of Athens sort of way. There are a lot of people out there who are, well... "counterproductive to long-term survival", to put it nicely. It gets very overwhelming at times, and it doesn't help that I have a nasty tendency to focus on the negative in an effort to better predict and avoid it.

You're doing the humanistic equivalent of "god's work", and even though I might feel like it's a hopeless endeavour in my dark times, I really appreciate the fuck out of you, man, and I hope you make a real, large-scale difference in the world. I wish you all the best, I really do, and I hope that one day I can become mentally strong enough to maintain the same mindset as you. The world needs it. WE need it.

[Anonymous No.6772690]

>>6772663
I'm sorry but was that muh nigga at buddha or a theoretical physicist?

[Anonymous No.6772691]

>>6772663
>people acting counter productive to the long term survival of humanity
Every time I see someone not taking the greater good into account I remind myself that it's my job to either inspire them into realizing their importance and that of their actions or to pick of the slack they left behind. Any other reaction, such as just giving up, wouldn't help things and if I started to act in the same way then that would just cause more people to give up. So I see my response as the only logical response. I'm no saint though. Most of the time this response only manifests itself as me walking a few discarded shopping carts in the middle of the parking lot to the shopping cart pen on my way to the front doors of Walmart or grabbing a piece of trash off the ground on my way to my university engineering department without grumbling about it.

A few things I want to say before I call it a night:
A) My perspective on things partly grows out of my disgust at the idea of me taking more from this world than I give (something I haven't accomplished just yet seeing as how my parents payed for my physics degree and I'm now simply working my through electrical engineering grad school).
B) Be the change you want in the world (Gandhi). Imagine the sort of world you want to bring about and act like a person within that world.
C) Change the world humbly. There are 7 billion people in the world and the most influential people are less influential than most people believe. Humanity is the sum of every human so be the best you that you can be and help others to be the best they can be. Don't lose heart just because you realize single-handedly brokering world peace is an unrealistic goal.
D) Star Trek, Cosmos, Gurren Lagann. All day, err day.

Have a good one dude. I've been procrastinating and may have to pull an all-nighter on these assignments. Your praise will sustain me ego for months, but it's your desires to make a the future better that fuel my faith in humanity.

[Anonymous No.6772698]

Astronaut. Astrophysicist.

[Anonymous No.6772702]

>>6767969

Dream job: billionaire owner of biotech company and funder of massive educational non-profit in Nepal and India.

Doing: Launching first engraving shop on Etsy (hopefully in ~2 weeks, but I've been wrong before). Spent the last year saving, doing market research on products, sourcing materials on Alibaba, doing test runs, etc. A small business, designed to take little of my attention, to fund my other interests. Also been doing trial runs in an arduino-controlled with a microbe I'm working on wood products engineering purposes, but I'm limited by budget issues - I can't afford to run too many experiments in parallel, and can't afford to send of for analytic chemistry. I have been dutifully mapping out the plasmids I'm hoping to use for engineering these fuckers. If it works, all that time spent on stupid engraving shit will have been worth it. After that I just have to actually be a genius somehow.

[Anonymous No.6772705]

pic related

[Anonymous No.6772715]

>>6772690

Theoretical physicist. There's a university not far from me that offers a doctorate program in theoretical physics, and I plan on taking it after getting a master's in mechanical engineering.

>>6772691

Thanks anon. Good luck with the assignments, and thanks for everything you do.

[Anonymous No.6772719]

>>6772715
Ah. Well thanks.

I dropped out of law last year and I'm trying to build the confidence to apply to start a science degree next year but it's proving a challenge.

[Anonymous No.6772726]

>>6767969
1NZSAS

[Anonymous No.6772736]

>>6772719

I can kind of understand that feel. I had a year and a half of general education in a community college ten years ago, but I dropped out before going for any kind of degree because at the time I didn't feel I was ready for it. Now I feel I may have waited too long and am feeling a little anxious about jumping back into school for a good ten years straight. I've never had too much trouble with learning (scored a modest 30 composite on the ACT with a reading comp score of 36) so I think I might do alright, especially since I've basically been studying in my fields of interest over the last decade, but still. It's been a long time, I've forgotten much of what I learned in school, and on top of that I've never been very good around people.

I'm determined to make it work though. I just have to steel myself mentally and accept that it's going to be difficult but rewarding.

Also, buddhism is one of the few "traditional religions" I like to any degree, let alone tolerate, so "muh nigga" to that as well.

[Anonymous No.6772787]

>>6772559
Keep it up, man, I'm >>6769746
For me, this is what matters the most. If we just stop aging and win over these horrible deseases, then anything is possible. Space travel? No problem. Trying everything in your life? Sure, now you have time for all of that.

[Anonymous No.6772876]

>tfw have no idea what you want to do in life
This is not a pleasant feel

[Anonymous No.6772887]

>>6772876
Just cross off shit you don't want to do.

[Anonymous No.6772937]

>>6772887
That still leaves a pretty big list

[Anonymous No.6772963]

>>6772937
Well better get on it then.
When you find that you are annoyed at doing trivial things on the list then you have data by which to assign priorities to the list and blamo.

[Anonymous No.6772964]

I was going to say "Mars colonist" but I've changed my mind, my new dream job is getting paid to follow
>>6768174
around, blasting rap from a golden boombox while he glares at me in impotent rage.

[Anonymous No.6772966]

>>6772964
kek

[Anonymous No.6772983]

Dream job: Roboticist
I'm currently studying in my frst year of engineering.

[Anonymous No.6773003]

>>6772983

I'll be joining you in the ranks next spring, best of luck to us both.

[Anonymous No.6773022]

>>6772983
Dream job: bio inspired robots
Masters student in engineering

[Anonymous No.6773025]

>>6767969
I'd like to be a chief aeroespacial engineer working at NASA.

[Anonymous No.6773031]

>>6773003
Thanks, good luck man
>>6773022
Nice ! What did you choose for you master ?

[Anonymous No.6773047]

>>6768151
This.
Not only is it fun , but it pays well.

[Anonymous No.6773050]

>>6768238
>yfw norks get a competent leader and a research team
They could make a burger killing virus in under a few years

[Anonymous No.6774006]

Scientist. Most likely theoretical physicist, maybe some sort of biologist or geneticist.

[Anonymous No.6774013]

>>6768637
5'8
manlet pride
I guess there is a positive.

[Anonymous No.6774755]

Something in the nuclear field. Joining Navy as Nuke.

[Anonymous No.6774776]

My dream job is President of the United States, and I'm doing all I can to get there.
And all that I've done has already landed me some decent jobs, so I can only go up.
Or down. Pfhaha. Oh well.

[Anonymous No.6774781]

>>6772651
I think I love you. You've precisely encapsulated my beliefs.

[Anonymous No.6774782]

>>6774776
Godspeed, nigga. The US has a ton of potential for doing good in the world, we could do with a president that's seriously interested in science and shit.

[Anonymous No.6774783]

>>6773031
> What did you choose for you master ?
First year, different school: Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in dynamics and control
Now (2nd year sorta): My papers say Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Applied Mechanics, but I'm an RA for a ECE professor and my only class is an ECE class.
I have a couple of projects that I'm helping on including: testing high gain-high speed amplifiers, designing a novel orientation sensor using a camera (this is for the class), and finally a missile tracking system for the DoD.

[Anonymous No.6774792]

>>6767969
I'd like to work on satellites and satellite technology.

I'm trying to work my way into a MS on information systems and specialize in Geo-spatial systems.

[Anonymous No.6774805]

>>6774792
Similar as well so I went with a electrical engineering with a physics minor. Or work in power industry with solar or nuclear energy if that fails since Canada has no strong aerospace company.

[Anonymous No.6774822]

>>6774755
I was considering that too until I realized they lie to you just to get you to sign. Every Nuke I ask says it wasn't worth it and they wished they were the non-Nuke version of their job because you get the same pay without the bullshit bonuses and you have shorter hours with nearly the same job prospects coming out.

Hopefully I get into a university-any at this point, because then at least I'll have the opportunities to do whatever I want. I was thinking Physics or Chemistry, if I can't swing it then maybe Nuclear Engineering/Chemical/Electrical.. maybe go to medical school. who knows.

Unless you know something that I don't, the Navy Nuke route is not worth it. The jobs that they say people get once they leave (why would you leave if they're paying you 100K a year if you re-enlist with the bonus) they're so few and far between because plants are getting shut down for stupid reasons.

[Anonymous No.6774832]

>>6774782
Good god one of /sci/ becoming US president we'd be screwed.

[Anonymous No.6774854]

I want to a job in which i can fling half-assed, raw ideas at someone who will polish and implement them.
I have no idea how that position is called.

[Anonymous No.6774858]

Always wanted to try a lot of things, from handcrafting to sciences, even if I'm more into the latter now. I would say that one of my dream jobs (why only one? ) would be to explain science on tv in order to educate people. I don't know for US (Frenchfag here) but there is almost nothing about science on the main TV channels,only crap for teenagers...

What do I do for getting there? Trying to do a lot of things, studying Maths because I consider it to be the base language for all science and it would be easier to do math to physics or chemistry than the opposite. Moreover,I try to keep up on CS cause if I am to explain things to people,I'm pretty sure we all agree CS is as much science as physics

[Anonymous No.6774894]

>>6774776
>Want to become president
>Live in the USA
>born in Europe
haha ur fugged :^)

Why do they have this?

[Anonymous No.6774949]

>>6774854
The boss

[Anonymous No.6774960]

Peeling lint from dryer traps for five minutes, an hour of pressing a light saber handle against things and then retirement to a life of luxury.

[Anonymous No.6775385]

>>6774858
Become an engineer.
Start with mech/chem. Then you can jump to another discipline pretty easily.

[Anonymous No.6776763]

>>6767969
Want to be an Electrical/Computer engineer.
Learning up Comp sci and Electronics in my schedule currently, Uni soon too.
I really just want to see how technologically capable a single individual can be, so I wouldn't mind helping with Biotic limbs or integrated bits and pieces. Even something as simple as casual clothing turning out to have some sort of special electronic effect on the person or their surroundings.

[Anonymous No.6777026]

I just want to be happy. I may need infinite wealth, perfect health, good life skills, good people to be surrounded with and loving soulmate(s). I want to be technically smart with computer engineering. I want to be the boss of a billionaire technology company that innovates. I wanna do what I want to do. I want to travel. I want to inspire people. Speak before a million crowd. I can go on.

[Anonymous No.6777243]

Dream position: running my own lab where I can be away on field work in interesting places for at least 3 months out of the year

What I'm doing to get there: working for a big data conservation firm, getting better at programming and statistics, which will make me more marketable to Masters' and PhD programs

[Anonymous No.6777941]

I want to get into fundamental medical research. I've no idea how to get there though.

[Anonymous No.6778414]

>>6767969

Dream Job... Deep Sea Marine Biologist

Who doesn't want to go down into the dark depths of the ocean and see things like pic related out your window.

[Anonymous No.6778435]

I want to get into prosthetic limbs so life will be like deus ex.