I'm going to share some thoughts I've been having lately on work and urgent and required distractions from it. Work is so personal and emotional and tied so much to my wellbeing — the house rebuild was causing me stress and affecting my ability to work...
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Now I'm calmer and I can focus on work I feel such a calmness and tranquility. Work itself can't make me relaxed in some cases but if I'm already relaxed to a certain extent it can definitely make me feel a deep sense of contentment and satisfaction.
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This is something I think many scientists and academics generally feel about their work and a big part of why I love my job and something I need to remember as a huge privilege of my current job.
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In addition to my good salary, I also genuinely gain happiness from it. I need to reflect on this, bearing in mind how privileged some of us in academia are...
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Because sadly, I can think of cases lately where colleagues (FWIW w/out compsci degrees, so unlike me) transitioned to data science for sadly lower (or the same) pay and many more work hours and many more obligations than me.
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I feel for them and I hope they manage to make work work for them too. The first job in industry, for many, is usually not the most well-suited anyway... I hope they find their feet because a fulfilling job can be truly life-enhancing.
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