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What Do Soylents Do?

posted by LaminatorX on Monday March 17 2014, @02:29AM   Printer-friendly
from the the-story-of-us dept.

buswolley writes:

"Soylents: Concentrated pools of experts, doers, thinkers.

I am a neuroscientist.

What do you do?"

 
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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by dpp on Monday March 17 2014, @09:30PM

    by dpp (3579) on Monday March 17 2014, @09:30PM (#17878)

    I usually explain to people that I have two careers - the one I like and the one I love!
    ["Day Job"]
    Started into IT writing video games at age 9, oddly enough (perhaps not on this site?) enjoyed that much more than playing computer games.
    Professional career thus far was mostly as computer programmer.
    Shifted into Sales Engineering and Solution Architecture, chasing a bit more income and more customer interaction.

    However...
    ["Second Job" evenings and weekends on occasion]
    I've been a passionate scuba diver since the 80s and became an instructor in the late 90s.
    Perhaps others here have experienced something similar - I've toyed with the idea of changing my primary career to the one I love (scuba) but the income and consistency of work is very different (read: "less").
    Whilst I love IT - am a true geek/nerd/science enthusiast/techie through and through... However, teaching scuba is much more rewarding to me (and involves a decent amount of science).
    I'm feeling a bit "too old" at this point to completely change careers, but I can't help but think that I could've satisfied the science passion with nature/underwater passion if I'd gone into marine biology or some such.

    ["Settled"/"Sold out"?]
    Don't know how common my type of story is in IT/tech industry, or how it compares to other industries, but I imagine that there are others on SN who "settled" for sticking with their primary job due to income concerns.

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