'Out Of Gas'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Among those who said they would not like to be scientists, reasons included: "Because you would constantly be depressed and tired and not have time for family",
Does this even make any sense? I am trying to figure out what would give a kid the idea that all scientists are depressed and busy. I understand the part about the classes and the white coats, especially for younger kids, because that is the default costume for "scientist" in cartoons and such.
If you'd asked me at 11, I'd have said that scientists wore big white coats, couldn't wear nail polish, smelled of chemicals and were impatient.
At that age, I knew not all scientists were my mother, but I didn't know where the line was.
I wanted to be a scientist some times when I was a kid. I figured they spent a lot of time in laboratories with things that foamed or went "boom." It sounded fun to me.
Buttons. I thought it was about buttons. My mother got to press the coolest ones.
Then I met the computer and it was all over. I still don't think of Computer Science as Science science, though.
I am trying to figure out what would give a kid the idea that all scientists are depressed and busy.
CSI and shows of that ilk?
Does this even make any sense? I am trying to figure out what would give a kid the idea that all scientists are depressed and busy.
This might be the answer if kids were asked about any professional.
I mean, "kids say the darndest things!" but that doesn't mean they're not going to choose a real job when they grow up, or major in something substantive by the time they get to college. I didn't have any reason to be a lawyer rather than a rock star when I was a teen.
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the above is a good link to a cholesteral article from Eating Well magazine.
it seems I am organic rasberry yogurt. there are worse things in the world.
CSI and shows of that ilk?
They're not depressed on CSI. Not notably. In fact, if I were drawing my scientist conclusions from CSI, I'd totally want to be one, because they're kinda pretty. And have hot co-workers.
Scientists got to stay up really late and play with really big telescopes and read studious looking books, afaik when I was 11. But my dad's field is pretty accessible from a child's standpoint. I got to go to work with him a lot. And play with the cool orbs.