In today’s post I want to highlight again the importance of all our hobbies and other activities that we do outside of our science career. I had a student who is beginning his science journey and I had been thinking of all the things I would like someone had told me, when I was starting. So here I will hive you some of that advise I would like someone had given me earlier.
If you are hyper focus as I was when you start you career in scince, my first advise will be take advantage of any experience you are offer to learn about other groups different that the one you love the most, even when you are complete sure that group of organism are the ones you want to spend your life studying. Although I took advantage of being working at my university museum when I was doing my biology career, I wish I had continued this practice after. The reason for this is that in today’s job market, being too focus can limit your job opportunities, especially in a country like Colombia in which research is not well paid.
My second advise is to get yourself a second career option and this can be directly related to my previous advise. Having skills, knowledge and passion about other things outside of science, like music, painting, crafting, languages or anything else can give you additional option when life get difficult and jobs are scarce.
And finally, learn about your finances early in life, specially because science jobs are not always permanent or well paid. Some of the people I know are as lucky as me to have family support, however that is not the case and I also had seen good professionals doing not so good thing or accepting jobs with ethical issues just to have money to feed their families.
So, although I had love my career more than I can express in a world like today’s with so much competition and lack of opportunities, it is useful to had a second career or at least a hobby that you can use to make you life easy and keep your soul free of ethical issues.
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