Posted by IsoM on February 4, 2003, at 13:24:43
In reply to Re: a confession... » IsoM, posted by Dinah on February 4, 2003, at 12:59:08
And here I get all sad over the little pickled animals. Isn't it funny how diff we can be & yet still understand each other?
When I went back to university a few years back, there was a young woman (just out of her teens) who got as enthused as me over biology. We'd look over each other's experiments & ooh & ahh.
Then when a shipment of pickled wet & preserved dry animals came in, we helped unpack the shipment. We kept going "ahh" over all the tiny bodies. The little rodents with their tiny paws hanging down, their noses pointing up & their little incisors showing were particularily pathetic.
I lost touch with her but if she went into teaching, her enthusiasm would be contagious. She would've made the greatest teacher. Still, I hope she went into research or something else.
One reason I didn't keep at it was at my older age, it would've taken far too long to get a master's or a doctorate like I'd like. And a bachelor's only qualifies one to be a glorified lab assistant - very mundane, boring stuff. Plus the trend in biology (at least in the job field) is all about genetic engineering & cloning - not something I'm entirely happy with.
So I'll do what I like best growing, cultivating, & improving methods of horticulture on my own & set up my own little career - a mix of advice, design, unusual plants for sale, teaching, & hands-on help. I hope it works.
Boy, I'm really blithering today. Can you tell the effects of the last 2 months stress is wearing off & I'm feeling good again? This is the normal Judy (not judy1) that some people think is hypomanic but isn't. ^_^
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