Help Lori pass his DiffEq final tonight.

[Dinner]

Try to screw your head the other way around - new expensive tires ? Well, they'll come handy the coming winter. etc.

I've found that tires are one place you really do want to spend extra on. One set of cheap Chinese tires on one of my old cars proved to me you want to buy a premium set of tires even if it costs more upfront. Yeah, you really can instantly tell the difference.

[regexcellent]

But they might pay me to do something I find fulfilling.

Most people find the same things fulfilling and as a result there is an overabundance of supply in those jobs which people tend to find fulfilling.

A man at my gun club was complaining on Sunday about how his son had been getting a degree in chemical engineering and was doing really well at it, 3.5 GPA, but switched to audio engineering because he wanted to be in the music business. He now lives in NYC doing unpaid internships which they super duper pinky swear promise will pan out into a paying job if he sticks with it but obviously they never do.

I have never seen an unpaid internship in my field.

[Aeson]

You can still do things you enjoy, just not during every waking moment of the day. Even if you nominally enjoy what you do for work, it isn't going to be a picnic no matter what it is. It'll mostly just be work, maybe slightly less aggravating. No one is going to pay you to only do things that you enjoy.

I beg to differ. You can make money doing things you love, if you're able to:

a) be able to modify the things you love to do internally
b) figure out how to monetize the things you already love to do
c) some combination of a and b

Currently I make my living doing things I demonstrably did for fun (here and at Civfanatics) in my free time a decade ago. (My money losing hobby is the hard, frustrating, but ultimately more personally rewarding "work" )

[Dinner]

Lori should do something meaningful with his life. Like catch an 18 lb lobster. :yum:

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-diver-bags-huge-lobster--20131211,0,7142298.story#axzz2nDeIxkZo

[Lorizael]

Most people find the same things fulfilling and as a result there is an overabundance of supply in those jobs which people tend to find fulfilling.

A man at my gun club was complaining on Sunday about how his son had been getting a degree in chemical engineering and was doing really well at it, 3.5 GPA, but switched to audio engineering because he wanted to be in the music business. He now lives in NYC doing unpaid internships which they super duper pinky swear promise will pan out into a paying job if he sticks with it but obviously they never do.

I have never seen an unpaid internship in my field.

I'm not going to be convinced that I should give up on trying to live a fulfilling life.

[ColdWizard]

Have you a theory on the formation of HD 106906 b yet?

[Lorizael]

Using advanced techniques from differential equations (guessing), I have determined that HD 106906 b is not a planet but an alien artifact.

(This is a pretty funny joke if you're a couple weeks into an introductory DiffEq course. I swear.)

[MikeH]

A man at my gun club

[ColdWizard]

Using advanced techniques from differential equations (guessing), I have determined that HD 106906 b is not a planet but an alien artifact.

(This is a pretty funny joke if you're a couple weeks into an introductory DiffEq course. I swear.)

Excellent.

If I were ever to become a writer, I would totally ask you to backstop my math/physics/orbital mechanics/sciency-sounding-bull****.

[Lorizael]

Speaking of writing, Maryland offers a BS in Physical Sciences with a specialization in Science Journalism. I may have found my degree program.

[MikeH]

BS is a great name for a course specialising in Science Journalism.

[Lorizael]

If only I could get a BS in Philosophy.

[ColdWizard]

JOUR300: Journalism Ethics (3)

That's still a thing?

[Lorizael]

They teach Latin, too.

[ColdWizard]

Yes, but Latin is still used in the sciences.