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Roll a saving throw against needless expenses.
I wish I had cheery advice. I don't even know what you should do when the problem is like this. Usually phd problems are "I'm burned out" and not "shit out of my control does not work."
I mean, other than drinking.
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Thanks, Roberts Court conservatives, for selling out justice yet again.
Can you take any time off? Are you burnt out from work or school / both / something else?
I have a fair handle on what work burnout is like now and am trying to deal with it!
Seems a bit of a knee jerk reaction.
what is it like to be you
Vacation.
Seriously, you take a week and you stop checking email, stop taking non-essential calls, and go somewhere away from your life. It doesn't have to be expensive, and it doesn't even have to be away from your house, but somewhere away from your usual routine and all the responsibilities attached to it.
When you get back from that vacation, pick an arbitrary time in the evening and declare it your No Business line in the sand. After that time, you are not allowed to do any business at all - don't answer emails, don't think about tomorrow's tasks.
I got a 9.
Wow, best post. I so hope you're quoting the Langoliers.
This has been a terrible human tragedy but the long term negative press it's gotten nuclear power, a system we should absolutely be flocking to (why aren't there like 10 reactors in the Nevada desert?) will never be used now is the real tragedy.
This was actually going to be my advice. And remind yourself frequently that life is impermanent and you aren't your job. Mentally throw up your hands, say fuck it, and have fun at certain points, i.e. every night after 7.
That looks so absurdly boring.
I fully agree. The reaction should be to make nuclear power better and safer, not discard it out of hand.
But guuuuuuuuuuuuuuys, radiations!
Seriously, fuck the anti nuke crowd. I hope they enjoy their moral superiority when we're fighting over semi trucks full of oil in the Australian desert.
Look man. They're lucky Godzilla didn't show up already... asking them to keep tempting fate is pretty selfish.
*munches on some brahmin jerky*
That actually is a pretty good summary of the problem as well. The issue is "stuff didn't work" and so I was always encouraged to go find something which did. Which was easy - the lab does hydrosilylation and is supposed to be proud of it, it's just it turns out all of that - which took some time to do - is completely irrelevant to my initial goals. And, since it was supposed to be so well understood as to be routine, I don't have comprehensive analysis of it (although, we actually did a pretty good job on all sorts of things of that - it just doesn't fit with anything I was trying to do).
So at the end of the day, my results, my "story" doesn't make any sense. After year 1, the obvious answer - which I recall suggesting to my supervisor - was that we should take the better understood nanocube synthesis method and see what else we could make with it, since that was well within the bounds of what we could do. But I had set out with intentions of nano-lego, my supervisor wanted nano-lego, and so instead I was encouraged to go after that. The problem though, is that particular goal was based on a whole lot of assumptions which pretty clearly weren't true at that point: you can't get nanocubes off silicon surfaces that easily, the "flatness" probably doesn't matter, in fact the entire underlying silicon construct basically has no influence on the nanocubes beyond being enormously attractive - under van der Waal's forces - to nanocube adsorption (nature hates flat things). And then there's the whole opposition to using fluoresence microscopy for DNA assays. I have no fucking clue why he was so opposed to this, because it is the technique to use for anything involving DNA, you get quantification basically for free, but my last gasp last year was me buying fluorescent DNA on my own credit card just so me and Bulgarian girl would have some. Around that time everyone suddenly got concerned about progress, thesis writing and reviews, so right as I took delivery I was strongly discouraged from further experimentation.
So yeah, I don't think there's cheery advice to be had, I'm mostly trying to make sure I'm at peace with the decision - I have the unfortunate habit of not letting things go, and I don't want to be 6 months into unemployment, doctorate-less, and still thinking of what I could have done - the evidence against which is mostly that it's not like I wasn't trying to do these things for the 4 years prior.
Alpha Centauri isn't really a 4X.
Hahaha
Hm, apparently without any of the nuclear power plants they are expected to be about 16.3% short of peak electricity demand in the summer. Man... I am going to be stuck in an apartment in the dead of summer with no electricity, I just know it.
so tell me, chuseph, what are you most ashamed of? *scribble scribble*
seriously, for me putting away childish things was not putting away videogames or my love of ewok jokes, but the fear of loving those things in public and being myself.
Much harder to do when the Vice President of your company calls you at 1030 at night (welcome to my Wednesday
I also don't get to make the Google decision, only people who have been with the company since the first Reagan term get to make calls like that
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stopped giving a fuck
I am pretty awesome and the hobbies I take up are made awesome by the fact that I am doing them
Well, more like you are just fortunate that your hobbies have an overlap with my hobbies. I made the hobbies awesome, you just get some of the leftover awesome from me, see? <3
Ask long-time Californians about rolling blackouts, and feeling like you live in a third world country despite being the world's fifth largest economy.
I worry about that too, but you know, these hookers aren't going to hammer their own heads in.
I often get burned out whenever I make something my "thing". I find it helps to have some things to rotate between should you ever burn out or find yourself too deep. Then again, maybe that's just the ADD talking.
It would be one thing if the alternative to nuclear power was magical rainbows and unicorn farts, but it's not; the alternative to nuclear power is coal power, and coal power has sickened and killed way more people than nuclear power ever will.
Funnily enough, I have lived in California my whole life
well i guess the question becomes- for me- who 'myself' is. these just happen to be the things i've liked for longest. i don't know if they're really 'my things'. do i want to be emotionally tattooed by the stuff i do? maybe a lot of it is just habit by now. maybe i do jiu jitsu or play guitar because they're things i've always done and i'm good at them. people enjoy doing things about which they have a facility. it's affirming to be good at something. but i mean, i could come up with emotional sounding and involved explanations for how music or grappling or whatever makes me feel. and yet i'm sure i could equally enjoy any other number of pursuits. it is sort of like the whole 'is there only one 'soul mate' out there for everyone' thing. and i think the answer to that is an unequivocal no.
so i feel a little uncomfortable when i invest myself, intellectually, in something i just sort of fell into doing.