I got into physics originally by being like an autistic child version of the guy on the right of the meme.
Over the course of grad school though, I've gotten to the point where I'm not really interested in physics for its own sake, at least not research work in it. I wanted to understand why the universe worked the way it does so I could find my own place in it. Now I understand that the thing that matters are people, and how we socially interface to build society.
Also my advisor is genuinely incompetent, doesn't know enough about the system to work on it, the work itself is essentially electrical engineering of low-level computing boards which isn't really physics, and he refuses to actually hire another person that does have expertise after our last guy left. So basically, I've just been burned out for years now and thinking about the project (not the work itself in particular, I agree, I've gotten to do some very neat things) is like borderline triggering for me.
Professors as a class are surprisingly often people that were promoted to a position of incompetence.
And when that incompetence leads to asking your workers to try to work with a codebase that's thousands of lines of uncommented code to run a custom chip, well, that's just extra fun.
Professors are part of the same general petty bourgeois class as middle management. This is why professors rarely respect the picket line when their TAs and research aides go on strike.
Yup. They are such weird little capitalists too. In some sense, via normal institutional mandates like tenure, they get quasi unfettered access to a labor pool that is all at the same cost to them. It's against their collectivized interests to join students in demanding raises because their own grants and bottom lines benefit from lower grad student wages.
Without revealing too much to a bunch of operators at Langley, what's wrong with your physics experience? That sounds like neat work
I got into physics originally by being like an autistic child version of the guy on the right of the meme.
Over the course of grad school though, I've gotten to the point where I'm not really interested in physics for its own sake, at least not research work in it. I wanted to understand why the universe worked the way it does so I could find my own place in it. Now I understand that the thing that matters are people, and how we socially interface to build society.
Also my advisor is genuinely incompetent, doesn't know enough about the system to work on it, the work itself is essentially electrical engineering of low-level computing boards which isn't really physics, and he refuses to actually hire another person that does have expertise after our last guy left. So basically, I've just been burned out for years now and thinking about the project (not the work itself in particular, I agree, I've gotten to do some very neat things) is like borderline triggering for me.
It's crazy how we let the coolest shit on planet Earth get reduced to the same bullshit that that happens in a marketing firm
Professors as a class are surprisingly often people that were promoted to a position of incompetence.
And when that incompetence leads to asking your workers to try to work with a codebase that's thousands of lines of uncommented code to run a custom chip, well, that's just extra fun.
Professors are part of the same general petty bourgeois class as middle management. This is why professors rarely respect the picket line when their TAs and research aides go on strike.
Yup. They are such weird little capitalists too. In some sense, via normal institutional mandates like tenure, they get quasi unfettered access to a labor pool that is all at the same cost to them. It's against their collectivized interests to join students in demanding raises because their own grants and bottom lines benefit from lower grad student wages.
i don't think that will let my FBI agent track me down at least
Maybe the FBI agents are the friends we made along the way