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[naturallypixie]

What if I don't want to be a scientist anymore?

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[aroraborealis.livejournal.com]

Nooo! Scientists are hot!

[youvebeenpixied.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know, but they aren't all happy :/

[youvebeenpixied.livejournal.com]

And that is waaaaay cute kitten tummy!

[burny-md.livejournal.com]

Oh no, I think its contagious! ;) You're not going to take up cooking are you? ;)

[youvebeenpixied.livejournal.com]

Only for the party we are having this weekend :)

[mrf-arch.livejournal.com]

I'd decide what I want to do instead, and make plans to start doing it.

[youvebeenpixied.livejournal.com]

Just got two books in the mail.

[em-yrt.livejournal.com]

So don't be a scientist anymore. There's nothing that says that just because you have advanced degrees in it, you have to do it forever. Find something that makes you happy.

[youvebeenpixied.livejournal.com]

I'm totally working on it. Wanna work weekends in a pagan bookstore?

[em-yrt.livejournal.com]

Maybe in the summer or part-time.. I'm not too thrilled with the idea of working weekdays at school, then weekends ANYWHERE. :)

[youvebeenpixied.livejournal.com]

Understandably so, but there will be all of the free tea you can drink!

[em-yrt.livejournal.com]

Ooooooo... tea.. I like tea.. :)

[awfief.livejournal.com]

Well, we all stop loving you unless you move to Boston, gas prices soar to $5 a gallon, everyone blames you, and world stops turning.

Just kidding -- except for the moving to Boston part. Better to know sooner rather than later. What was the answer to "what if I don't want to be in Italy any more?" You moved, dealt with the pain in the butt, but you dealt with it.

You have a loving husband and loving friends and you are very smart. If you're not happy where you are during the day, find a place that will make you happy. Think of your career as a relationship -- if you're not happy, you have to leave it.

[youvebeenpixied.livejournal.com]

Career as a relationship. Good thought, that. As I have said many times, if you don't like it where you are, there is a plane leaving every day.

[beah.livejournal.com]

Kung fu sex goddess?

[youvebeenpixied.livejournal.com]

Excellent option that I will keep in mind. At least I am already qualified for it :)

[rdhdsnippet.livejournal.com]

You go to school to become an astronaut-veternarian-ballerina. At least that was always my fallback... :o)

[youvebeenpixied.livejournal.com]

Astronaut-veternarian-ballerina is a great fallback plan and you should let me know when you next mission-birthing-show is as I will most certainly be there to support you, but part of my problem is I just don't wanna so the school thing EVER AGAIN. Unless I am teaching. That would be fun. But not high school, because teenagers suck.

[em-yrt.livejournal.com]

They DO suck, but they are also highly entertaining.. :)

[youvebeenpixied.livejournal.com]

I am not as Zen as you are and the entertainment value would not outweigh the aggrevation. I would totally have to kill one or several of them and I'm certain that their parents would be upset. People don't like it when you ruin such an expensive investment. They have put tens of thousands of dollars into them by the time they reach high school.

[gsh]

Then don't be. Life is too short to deal with a soul sucking job.

[youvebeenpixied.livejournal.com]

It is not so much that it is soul-sucking, as much as it is that I don't really have a good time doing it. I am not really interested in what I am studying here. I thought that I could just keep doing the science in a detached way, but I am not really capable of that I am finding. But you are absolutely right, life IS too short to be in a soul-sucking job.

[reedrover]

My Mom kicked over the traces at 53, went back to school for a Ph.D., moved clear across the country at age 57 and started teaching what she wanted to teach to the people who she most wanted to teach.

The moral of the story - you are never too old to change your mind and start your life again somewhere new doing something you always wanted to do.