The Process of Crafting a Career Path

Crafting your own career path... If you have chosen "science" as your career field, good luck. And yes, good luck to me. Interest or passion helps. However, the constant stifling scientific research in the lab (where you spend most of your waking hours) may, or may not, kill however much interest or passion you have. Just a possibility, I say.

One thing I have come to realize is this limiting cap we put on ourselves. I graduated with an engineering degree; I am going to be an engineer. I graduated with a music degree; I will be a musician for my whole life, etc. etc. etc. You get the idea. This is more so for PhD graduates. I say TAKE OFF THE CAP! Quit limiting yourself from doing what you are capable of doing!

Here is an interesting article from http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org
Special Feature: Not What You Thought You'd Be Doing

The article features Angelo Vermeulen, my hero/scientist-artist-musician-gamer, Jorge Cham, the famous PHD cartoonist, and interestingly Jeff Mangahas, who switched to a winery from a lab. Very interesting indeed.

Moral learned from the article: Don't limit yourself to what you "think" you should do.