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mollymolekular

Part Three- The Future

Sep 07, 2005 15:11

So I am aware that I've been pretty Sybil around here. Hot job in the faculty of medicine one second, looking for paleopathology programs the next. Molecular biology course all the while. Currently doing cancer and epidemiology research ( Read more... )

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genesisdiem September 7 2005, 20:40:13 UTC

Darling, the parallels between us are eerie sometimes....

mollymolekular September 8 2005, 14:53:06 UTC

Now how did I know you'd say that?

Actually, your forensic input has been really important to me. I don't know if I have the stomach, and it's interesting to see how it all panned out for you . . . I think we may have the same sensibilities. I'd like to talk more about it, actually.

Cause you know, everything is fun and cool when it's new. But my first encounter with depravity may be the first of many encounters with a bottle of wine, sitting on the bathroom floor, bawling like a tool.

genesisdiem September 8 2005, 16:17:26 UTC

I'm glad to answer questions any time. I actually was interviewed by an undergrad once about my field. heh. But I'm sure you'd be fine. I say talk to a coronor about sitting in on an autopsy (or even more schools let you observe now) and see if you can stomach it, b/c it doesn't get much worse than that.. .altho I've got some gruesome stories...

mollymolekular September 8 2005, 16:26:02 UTC

Hmmm. Maybe we could do an email interview? I'd rather do it by phone, but I don't know how comfy you'd be with that :)

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ongoingstory September 8 2005, 02:12:47 UTC

Dude, my posts are rubbing off on you too much, lol. Maybe its the nasty 26's. Please read my post I'm about to put up about what happened when I left work today. The hilarity of my life continues.

BTW, I'm right with you, about not knowing what I want to be when I grow up. At the same time, I don't think anyone does and as long as you're in a sorta similar field, you tend to find jobs. For example, I don't know if I want to be an art director or a business director, but I know I can get jobs in print media, marketing, and education at the least. Whatever jobs I get in those fields are fine for me.

mollymolekular September 8 2005, 14:49:21 UTC

I hear what you're saying about containment within your field, but it's tough. I've got the medical AND anthropology fields on my plate right now. I know it won't be impossible, but it'd be tough to go from one to the other if I move back into the anthro now. But the meds people are such . . . snots. Well, so far.

Getting the job that prof wanted me to take in meds would be perfect for figuring out how I really feel about medical research, separate the work from the crummy people I've dealt with in the field. On the other hand, I'm trying to find a dig to volunteer at to see what I really think of anthro.

And if I'm doing grad school, I really want to start next September. I don't want to be a starving student in my late 30's raising kids on ramen noodles and Kraft dinner.

Head. Spinning.

ongoingstory September 8 2005, 15:10:39 UTC

There's this guy I was reading about the other day that made me feel a hundred times better. He's not famous or anything, but one smart dude. He was born in 63, I think, and went to MIT in 79. He didn't get his PhD until about 2000. That's nearly 21 years. Well, I'm sure his thesis was insane, but I think he was literally working on it for over a decade. In that time between starting at MIT and getting his PhD there, he was able to fulfill his love for photography, having been published in many large publications, he started 4 businesses, 2 of which succeeded and made millions of dollars, and he taught at the University in his spare time while also working with HP and other big ass companies ( ... )

mollymolekular September 8 2005, 15:32:06 UTC

Thank you so much. I hear exactly what you're saying, and I'm kinda buying it. That guy is more like what I'd want to be . . . not some gunner who does the one thing obsessively and from day one.

Actually, I'm thinking of writing a bestseller so that I have the cash to not worry about how long my PhD takes or how many PhD's I get :)

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thecoldroom September 8 2005, 09:42:29 UTC

Can you farm?

mollymolekular September 8 2005, 14:42:35 UTC

I'm good with chickens, actually.

breakon87 September 8 2005, 20:19:07 UTC

I do hope that you get to do something that you really want to do. It can be difficult not to just take a job just for the money and end up trapped. Good luck and best wishes.