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The job of a physicist is to study nature, but how many actually get out and experience nature?
It seems that the more professional someone becomes, the less interested they are in actually enjoying the things they study - it all becomes about data and graphs and lab work.
How many astrophysicists or astronomers actually go out at night and look up at the night sky, or through a telescope with their eye god forbid?
How many biochemists take the time to walk in a wild field and breath in the life around them? I do enjoy learning about physics and I'd like to make a career of it one day, but at the same time I really don't like the idea of always being couped up in a lab or chained to a computer chair. I'd like to live in the mountains one day when I'm older and fish and hunt, and chop wood and read infront of a fireplace through the long winter and live a simple life...
Maybe I'm just feeling this way because it's the start of spring, but as much as I am fascinated and find studying nature inspirational, I am somewhat horrified by the way in which it is done and the sacrifices one has to make to pursue it. Any other people feel this way?
It seems that the more professional someone becomes, the less interested they are in actually enjoying the things they study - it all becomes about data and graphs and lab work.
How many astrophysicists or astronomers actually go out at night and look up at the night sky, or through a telescope with their eye god forbid?
How many biochemists take the time to walk in a wild field and breath in the life around them? I do enjoy learning about physics and I'd like to make a career of it one day, but at the same time I really don't like the idea of always being couped up in a lab or chained to a computer chair. I'd like to live in the mountains one day when I'm older and fish and hunt, and chop wood and read infront of a fireplace through the long winter and live a simple life...
Maybe I'm just feeling this way because it's the start of spring, but as much as I am fascinated and find studying nature inspirational, I am somewhat horrified by the way in which it is done and the sacrifices one has to make to pursue it. Any other people feel this way?