i consider myself to be unbelievably lucky at the moment. I work as a physicist (studying for a PhD in Star Formation) which allows me more opportunities to travel and meet people than most jobs. The pay is reasonable, not brilliant but livable. Whilst the job is a desk job (modern astrophysicists spend most of their time using computers) the hours are very flexible since you are judged on the work you produce rather than the time you spend in the lab. My supervisor is a great person with a ton of connections too.
I could happily work in this environment for the rest of my life, much like Daffy. One very key advantage is that the environment is very nurturing and free. I'm quite unusual as I take this and use it to work on my own project such as my blog in my spare time rather than going to the pub and watching CSI. Writing a mind dump blog is still beneficial to my work since I can unload a lot of the garbage that is flowing in my head and by making sense of it for others, it helps me make sense of it. Kind of like a mental disk defragment. Clarity of thought is very important to me. If I can make a little money from it, even better!
pinki, if I were you I'd set out to be a free-lance programmer. You can write Java right? Can you write me a class (or set of classes) which can add, subtract, multiply, divide and do power operations to numbers at 128bit (quad precision) accuracy? I have 2 numbers which (currently only) are subtracted from one another and the difference is at the 90th (or so) decimal place. With double precision variables this just turns into a random number generator. Write me this (for free), if it works and if my work ever gets published I'll mention you in the paper and I'll give you references as a previous employer too. (Note, this isn't related to my PhD project but something I did a while ago but got hung up on the issue. You might have to wait for a paper mention but the references can start immediately)
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