How did you find these places and what kind of knowledge did you need for it? I definitely find very appealing using my software industry knowledge for the advancement of science
I worked for professors for free in undergrad, and then later for money also in undergrad.
Profs are always looking for research assistants. Granted now is the wrong time to try to break into the industry given the NIH cuts. I was able to get a contracting position with university of pittsburgh and a free gig with CMU just by asking and that pays the bills but its not too much money. However if you don't already have publications you may have to wait until this chaos has wound down (honestly even if you do have publications it'll be hard to get paid until the chaos winds down I think I mostly just got very lucky).
You can always get publications by working in a lab for free and have a real job simultaneously but that is a lot of work.
There are also startups that have similar job descriptions. I worked for Signature Diagnostics for a year and a half and it was very bio/science heavy. But the key skill to break in is publications. I personally don't think this is a great metric, but unfortunately it is the metric.
Comics and books inspire people to get traits and achieve things like the characters from the stories. As an example: Elon, because of reading Isaac Asimov's Foundation and other sci-fi books, got inspired to do space stuff. Not to become a sci-fi writer (although that could have happened as well)
Many scientists and engineers have been inspired this way when they were kids.
The show is oriented around a fictitious law enforcement technology called the Sibyl System. This system is capable of determining the intent of people, and based on that, it can predict crimes and criminal intent, allowing law enforcement to preventively take action. The kicker is, as the MC learns, that there are people who the system doesn't seem to work on.
Minor(?) plot point spoiler ahead for season one:
Later on the story the main character further learns that the system is actually a mainframe made up of living human brains connected together. Hence the relation.
> What if they get sick or become incapacitated in old age? Shh, this is about micro-retirement, not the inability of the young to acknowledge the inevitability of declining health
What if they die before reaching retirement age? With the talks about retirement, it always surprises me how people take for granted they will live beyond well beyond retirement and then "truly live"
>Yes, but I presume at a high physical cost in the long-term?
Why? Electricians aren't doing intense labour, and I'm 99% certain that being in a job where you move around a lot (as opposed to sitting at your desk) has long term health benefits, without even getting into carpal tunnel syndrome and other RSIs associated with being at a computer.
I hire electricians regularly. Driving a grounding rod is physically demanding. Moving conduit and hoisting it overhead for long runs is demanding. Carrying tools around, mounting light fixtures…and this is for light commercial work. It’s definitely not easy on the body and why older electricians want to transition in to design and engineering as opposed to field work.
These things are relatively physically demanding if your baseline is sitting at a desk.
But hammering a rod into the ground for 15 minutes, or holding some weight over your head, or carrying weight in your toolbag are not things that break your body down; they build your body up.
I have a relative who’s a lifelong electrician, and now in his mid 60s he’s basically confined to a recliner unless he takes his pain pills. Twisting, turning, and kneeling takes its toll.
Worked for a res. Electrician for 6 years. It is often a pretty decent physical gig: drilling holes, pulling wire for days, climbing up under over every book you can think of. Someone else mentioned ground rods (relatively infrequent but), digging trenches for conduit, pulling the wire into the conduit, making up thousands of wires in boxes again and again.
Bending a 200 amp service wire around in a panel is no light task.
As someone who has never been to a gym, but has grown up on a farm and lived a life of mostly trades, it reminds me of all I see written about the different types of working out and how gym can be so different from physical labors conditions where what you are doing may not be a giant lift, or a giant use of force, but you've got to be able to do it for hours a day, back to back to back, day after day.
I'm not deluded at all. I spent a few of my younger years in the oil sands, which definitely convinced me that wasn't something I could or wanted to do forever.
But we seem to be calling anything other than "sitting at a desk doing knowledge work" physically demanding. Maybe it's me, but having physical elements of your job and the job being physically demanding are different things. And when you are out of shape, anything is demanding.
