While it is good to be aspirational and aim to a role as a principal scientist, inventor, scientific genius etc. It is important to understand that training is important to be sufficiently fluent in the technology. Your personal level of commitment and educational level of attainment will determine your career options. If you don't like being relegated to 'production' then go do an advanced degree. But understand that even with an advanced degree you may not get to be 'creative' if you are not already creative as a personality.
We can't all be rappers, movie stars, professional athletes just because we want to be. Same with the creative side of science and technology ... educational attainment is a minimum necessity but after that you still need talent, dedication and a little luck.
I am a self employed scientist business guy .. PhD MBA ..... started two biotechs ... and I still get insulted almost daily by financiers, academics, administrators and bureaucrats who think they can tell me anything whatsoever about entrepreneurship, scientific innovation, etc. Get used to it. I am Ronin to them and they fear me. One day I will be Shogun and their heads will fall to my sword......
DIYBio is great for improving access to scientific research at an earlier than usual level of formal training. It also allows the truly creative to participate and contribute. Make the most of this avenue. But ultimately progress will be made best in formal structures ... even if you fight them daily as I do.
>matt
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Josiah Zayner <josiah.zayner@gmail.com> wrote:
What I meant is that sometimes I have worked 10 times as hard just to prove someone that their negativity towards me was ill warranted.
Such as: "That teacher told me I was a failure. So to spite them I worked so hard that they had to give me a good score and prove themselves an asshole."
That is how I took the comment. Maybe that was not how it was meant?
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 9:31 AM, John Griessen <john@industromatic.com> wrote:
On 06/08/2014 11:00 AM, Josiah Zayner wrote:If you endure some of the production style employment for any length of time, that can build.
I actually identified with the spite comment.
It's best channeled into notebook scribbling, then doing with a better outcome in mind.
You would not get very far with a "pure spite" plan of sabotaging a product that is selling without
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