EscapistAccount said:
If I had the money this is what I'd like to do, studying for the sake of learning is awesome. The only thing I think you'll find is that you'll get pissed off with your fellow students, I went to university later than others in my year and I never stopped being annoyed at how lazy and apathetic they were.
I'm in this boat already ... 9th year. But I'm in research proper, and thank fuck I don't have to live on the stipend they offer and on government welfare. It's more so 'funwork' ... which is the best sort of work. I tell you what, though. At least 50% of new discoveries and theories come off the backs of all those incredibly underpaid souls that litter university halls.
Which is why the whole Trump thing of taxing tuition cuts isgoing to be so deleterious.
But as they say, you don't go into science for the money, you go into science for the company you get to keep (and the hours). Universities have a growing number of mature age students, as well ... I think gone are the days of actual retirement. I think most middle aged people are like me and just expect to do as low stress work as possible until they die. I'm only in my 30s but I never want to do a 'real job' again. Quite happy being out of the conventional workforce.
That being said, going to be a hell of a lot of money in neuropsych over the next two decades.
High 6 figure, 7 figure incomes assuming you have the capacity to study for the length of time it takes. We're already in the neuroprosthetic/BCI verge and some of the stuff you get to look at is breathtaking. Submerged chipping of the visual cortex and corpus callosum to grant pseudo-sight bypassing the optic nerve altogether?
It's going to be a pretty wild future, and neuroprosthetics and BCI isentirely undiscovered country that will just
explode in every possible way imaginable. It will be like the medical industry in the 1950s till now, only everyone will want a piece of it whether they're sick or well.
Deus Ex nonsense is just that.... Why is it when people think of a cybernetic future, they thing metal arms and retractable Wolverine blades? That's fucking stupid and the least impressive things neuroprosthetcs and BCI could offer (or moreso, complete fallacies).
What people should be excited about is the moment when you start seeing things like sense data sharing.
I say bring it on.
Baffle2 said:
I used to do this (wines, ciders and beers, not spirits, though I did a few spirits kits but there's not much to that).
It's a really fun hobby, and one you get to share with friends later.
For beer, all-grain brewing is the way to go if you can, but it takes a lot of fairly basic but space-consuming gear. The alternative is brew in the bag (BIAB), which needs much less gear and is still quite fun. All-grain is much cheaper (and more involved) than BIAB in the long run, and you'll cover the gear cost fairly quickly (BIAB ingredients cost more).
Yeah, kind of the problem because I live in a studio apartment. My 'hobby space' already fills one third of the apartment that includes my sewing machine, tools, fabrics, adjustable mannequin. Research space and library + Boardgames takes up another third.
I'm a 33 year old living the life of a perpetual bachelorette. But then again, I'd rather save money living cluttered than spendmoney having space I don't need.
I was thinking of renting out another storage garage space in West Sydney so that I could expand into learning brewing. Something I can put padlocks on.
I cut a deal with the 'super' whether I could load up some of my motorcycle gear and tools in one of the service rooms in the carpark, already ... but I don't want to chance having a still or the like in a place where anybody could theoretically get their hands on stuff I haven't even put a hydrometer to.
But if I can compete in it, I will almost certainly try to play it.
