It makes me grimly determined to catch up on work and go as far as I can starting now. I really see more purpose than ever in my job as a (yes shitty and mediocre 
) scientist in a hard science (and one with no human angle at all so human versus AI and other lame-brained crap doesn’t come up). The human sciences are for military psyops. The hard sciences are sciences.
My mom’s one wish was that I go as far in the hard sciences as I can. She always wanted to work in the sciences. She went into banking and never respected it. She found physics too hard at the PhD level and got a bank job, but was unhappy with work all her life. She wished she had become a high school physics teacher instead.
I was a lousy daughter in some ways. But this is one thing I can do for my mom who left me far too soon.
Edit history
Recommendations
1 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):
= new reply since forum marked as read