Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Beards
I worry quite a lot about whether I'm really cut out for being a high level successful research scientist. I love pottering about in the lab, doing different things, and I'm pretty good at it. I can even get into writing up my results in projects and giving presentations on my work if I get into it enough but I just can't imagine being good enough to be a fully fledged independent researcher. Most of the people I work with are middle aged, slightly odd blokes with beards who I really don't want to be like. I don't think I have the weird obssessiveness and unwavering self belief and certainty and I certainly I hope I never have a beard. Even the younger scientists I work with tend towards beards and strangeness. I've never said I was normal but these people tend to be slightly disconcerting and strange rather than normal mad if you know what I mean.
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