Do I Become A Scientist? Or Get A 9 To 5 With Renoise Evenings?

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Well, hopefully he won’t be ostracized by you or the actual professional scientific community if he does.

I will add the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator has helped me get a much greater awareness of myself.
I took it 13 years ago and then again last year and I have changed quite a bit.
Numerous people I have had the chance to converse with that have also took it, displayed similar results.
So yeah, psuedo science or not the work of Carl Jung, is relevant, unless your a devote scientologist i guess.

[kickofighto]

@BYTE-Smasher

//To me it seems like the question is: which side of your brain do you want to exercise the most?//
That is, if you believe all that pseudoscientific bullshit about lateralization of functions such as creativity and logic. I’m sure kickofighto knows better than that

Hah! Yeah, truly the Fox News of neuroscience! All due respect to Sperry and Ornstein though, I think it holds to a certain degree but is a generalisation.
I’m actually going to graduate with a genetics degree. Postgraduate/workaday job future is what I’m shaky about.
Actually my project is in developmental neurogenetics.

I don’t think the MBTI test could do me much harm though.

[GlitchedOut]

@kickofighto

So I’m Going to graduate soon. At the start of this year I was feeling very enthusiastic about continuing a career in science and research. Then things took a bit of a turn for the worse . A long essay I had to hand in ended up being terrible, my project hit some awful snags and I got depressed. Difficult to maintain focus and motivation at the moment, and for whatever reason I’m not feeling sciency on the future front. I stopped tracking before xmas, because it keeps me up all night and I can’t discipline myself ( on that note I should stop with this forum for a while too). I want to be able to make music, and pay for instruments, but I’m not good enough to pay my way with music. It’s really just a very engrossing hobby at the moment. The life of a phd student isn’t one with definite ends to the day, It’s very stressful and I may not get the grades needed for a good choice of place to study or funding.

I find the idea of 9-5 jobs with time for my hobbies ever more attractive, but where does a genetics degree leave me in terms of qualifications? Will I be happy there?

Sometimes I think all I want to do is stay a kid and track crappy 2 minute one off songs till kingdom come. Won’t pay the bills though…
sigh

Anyone with me?