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Apparently your hobbies becomes less interesting if you're forced to do them all the time? Who knew?
Submitted 3 weeks ago by alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world to science_memes@mander.xyz
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QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
ITALICIZED PIG HELL YEAH
alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
FUCK YEAH
otter@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
lol TIL
🐈️🔥🔥🔥
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I used to love computers… still do, but good god do I hate tech companies and all this shit it’s spawned. My last remaining line of defense mentally is that at work we have shifted to a mostly Windows environment, and my interests lie with the Unix side of things.
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
I’ve lucky enough to be able to fund my study while I’m in middle age.
I took up my degree course because I enjoyed computing and the theory behind it. I enjoy it for the most part, it’s engaging and intriguing. I’m getting some personal and academic development out of it even though it’s got fuck all to do with my “real” career.
I can see people stressed off their tits with it though - people who have a career pinned on success with the degree; people who went to uni because they felt it was just the next natural step; and people who did it because they were told to.
I feel genuinely gutted for them that a topic that brings so much learning and satisfaction can bring another so much stress and anxiety.
Shame.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Yeah, you’re right, I’m an it scmuck in cyber now but it doesn’t mean I failed at computers, I don’t want a more stressful job, I don’t want to program for a living, I just enjoy learning computer science
crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Mine is being able to self host services that have been enshittified by the tech companies. I tried to watch Fallout on Prime legitimately but their servers couldn’t handle the volume. I had it on my Jellyfin server in the time it would have taken the episode to fully buffer.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Haha, god bless, that’s the spirit!
airbreather@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
they don’t even tell you all numbers are imaginary until grad school
It’s more complex than that
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Don’t be irrational
Klear@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
Yeah, let’s be real.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I love 3D art, and I want to make games eventually. I remember using my cracked copy of 3D Studio MAX to experiment and try things “just to see real quick!” when I was supposed to be doing more boring homework like report writing.
I even kept my obsession after a community college semester with the most joy-killing professor on the subject you could ever meet.
I dropped out of college because of life and found Blender, and kept learning as much as I could because I thought it was my ticket to a real job that didn’t involve “How may I help you?” every single day. It was going to be my way out.
Well, just a year or so ago I FINALLY got paid to do a freelance character sculpt. And…It took way longer than I hoped, I hammered on it like every single day, and I haven’t touched Blender since wrapping that project.
I really want to get back to modeling, but it made me realize I definitely don’t want to be an “industry” 3D artist making stuff to someone else’s exacting specifications for money. I still would love to sell a game on Steam or something some day.
…But I put a lot of skill points into these skills already, following what I love…so I’m kinda lost. Business and work is a realm that just makes me nauseous and anxious to think about as the water keeps rising, so to speak.
So I guess I’m saying: don’t make the thing you love your lifeline to surviving capitalist society, because unless that thing is “making money”, doing it for money or clientelle chokes the joy out of most human endeavors.
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
So I guess I’m saying: don’t make the thing you love your lifeline to surviving capitalist society, because unless that thing is “making money”, doing it for money or clientelle chokes the joy out of most human endeavors.
This is a really good quote, thanks.
Taldan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Man, I feel that deeply. Working in tech has destroyed any joy I got from technology. After several years I got burnt out so badly that I had to take a couple years off
Now here I am, only a couple months back into working and every moment I spend actually doing the work is torture. I used to love it, now I’d be happy to never use technology in a productive way for the rest of my life
Sine_Fine_Belli@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, too real. It’s that many people are currently forced to turn their hobbies into their second job to make ends meet
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I really loved reading until i started middle school.
I’ve tried so hard to enjoy it again as an adult because there’s not that academic pressure, but now i even feel apathetic about reading stories I am interested in.
Zron@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Audiobooks helped me get back into reading. It’s a different medium, but I’m still getting the story.
And now I can enjoy a good story and fold laundry or do other chores at the same time.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I like audio books, but i have really bad retention when listening to them. I will just zone out and miss everything. :c
nialv7@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s not your fault. Don’t hate yourself and don’t give yourself pressure. Relax and maybe it will happen, or maybe it won’t. Either way, don’t push yourself.
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
I really loved reading until i started middle school. And by the time i graduated i no longer found any enjoyment in reading.
An education system that takes away the enjoyment of reading from people is rotten.
lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
That sounds a bit like burnout, to be honest. I stopped reading for a few years, too, and didn’t even know why, I was just not “in the mood” or at least I thought so. I have picked it up again this year and ultimately realized that my job was stressing me out. I was constantly worried about problems at work, but for reading, you need a calm mind.
Quitting my job and going to another company this year was one of the best decisions ever. Since then I have found time for hobbies (and losing weight) again. I also read on a WiFi-less eBook reader and put my phone into another room, so I cannot get distracted.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m gonna be real, idk if there’s a way for me to feel ok about life while I’m stuck working 40hrs+ a week.
And I can’t find a way to live while working less than that. I’m trying so hard to find another option.
yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I am a first year student in electronics engineering.
I loved watching fun youtube videos on math (ex. 3blue1brown) but was not fond of high school math, due to the lack of proofs and deeper understanding.
Nowadays the stuff I used to watch for fun turned into my job and I couldn’t be happier. Finally getting to do real science feels good.
Unlike high school math, I loved high school physics but that one was mostly due to my way of learning. Which is with lots of visualisations in my head and lots of calculus to prove the formulas they made us memorize.
These days, even though my books give me the proof right away, I sometimes don’t look at the proof because I miss the magic of fiddling with calculus for hours to find it myself.
I love computers but I felt like my love would diminish if I picked CS as a major. Mostly due to the monotonous nature of the job environment. But i am pretty sure my love for electronics is undying and unlike computing I have heaps to learn about electronics so I picked it.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Is electronics engineering different than electrical engineering?
tburkhol@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Electrical engineering includes large-scale power systems, where electronics engineering is mostly small scale instrumentation, computers, etc
DonPiano@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Skill issue. Learning to love an academic discipline beyond the flashy YouTube video level and into the depths of actually doing it every day involves, among other things, a lot of work, such as when you reconceptualize what it’s all about and where the beauty lies.
“I fucking love science” and loving science are different games.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I mean, I’m an expert in three fields. I only love the music one.
Johanno@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
I love fucking science
alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I went to grad school for speech language pathology, so I’ve read plenty of academic articles. I always thought they were incredibly depressing. So ever since grad school, I have imagined scientists as people who are constantly overworked, underpaid, and depressed
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So ever since grad school, I have imagined scientists as people who are constantly overworked, underpaid, and depressed
Uh… but you’re not that far off. Maybe not depressed if they really love their work, but some really hate writing up findings and looking for grants because it’s the admin part of the job that no one likes. It’s like every episode of Ologies where it’s a research scientist, she asks what the things they like least about their job is, and it’s always always always hustling for money and writing endless grant applications.
garlicandonions@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I work in what a lot of people would call a calling. I’m extremely happy coding, writing and doing research. I got a PHD and even that didn’t kill the joy I get doing it. I work in a big fortune 500 company doing it and that didn’t kill my joy either.
My biggest piece of advice for people afraid to get jobs within their interests is: take care of yourself. You’ve got to find other interests and stabilize yourself when you’re drained. There’s a lot exhaustion overlapping with joy suck here that has nothing to do with no longer enjoying your interest.
Sometimes you’re drained from the job - because it’s a job. Or grad school.
Or the skill / interest is genuinely hard and not as playful as before because you got to a really difficult part, like super advanced mathematics. That’s true with a lot of skills. You go far enough, and it’s genuinely difficult to learn, understand, and grow. And then it’s up to you if you can still find your passion in it or not.
glimse@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Calling academia “evil incarnate” for that is a bit much.
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
no its really not
Siethron@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, they didn’t even mention peer reviews!
LynneOfFlowers@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Great school really took a heavy toll on my mental health, but it didn’t take my love of the field. Diving into the literature on plant development was… Like, I would go for a walk outside and look at all the foliage and it was like I could see the code of the matrix. Auxin flowing along the edges, pooling to form leaves and lobes and then diving down into the interior to form vascular connections. CUC expressing in the primordia then hollowing out to define the boundaries. PINs relocalizing to reenforce the auxin flow. Ad/abaxial gene cohorts defining the leaf polarity and thereby orientation. It was like some wonderful second sight that showed me worlds that had once been hidden to me. It was this almost transcendental experience and I’ve never forgotten it even as I’ve moved on other fields.
I’ve never had quite the same experience since, but I still have found that, to me, learning what’s behind the mystery often makes it more magical, not less
tetris11@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
For me it was physics. Was interested in it as a teen, studied it for a degree, and though I did well in it – I just could not look at it as this fun thing. It would even make me angry to some degree to read physics posts on reddit where people shared their enthusiasm for certain concepts.
Then I kept reading reddit, had my mind repeatedly blown by things that I thought I understood but clearly didn’t because I was just doing rote memorization to pass exams, and I began to enjoy it again. Now I love it, but it really is amazing what being forced to learn something for little-to-no encouragement other than an exam mark can do to sap your enthusiasm for something
Digit@lemmy.wtf 2 weeks ago
hobbies becomes
That’ll trigger some people’s hobby.
If they’ve not already, for too long, been forced to correct grammar.
PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I discovered at a young-ish age that the adage of “do something you love and you’ll never work a day in your life” is absolute, unabashed bullshit.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
As someone who loves science.
I am so glad i decided to pursue video game development as higher education rather then a scientific field.
Granted the illusions in games are gone, every game is now a dull collection of mechanics and The gap between what modern games are snd how i know they could be is depressingly vast.
But at least i can still enjoy hour long deep dives into quantum mechanics and golden ratio.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
For me studying for my master’s was the more fun part than studying for my bachelor’s. The bachelor’s studies included a lot of obligatory subjects that were less interesting to me, or choices that didn’t include any fun options.
In the master’s studies we were free to specialize much more. There was lots of work, but it was interesting. Like building a small OS. Or reading the newest networking papers and discussing their merit. Or implementing congestion control for ourselves, and playing around with ideas on how to maximise its efficiency.
Now I’m a network engineer at an ISP and things are much more practice focused and I had to learn a ton that wasn’t taught at uni, or was taught to electrical engineers instead of me, to get into things, but it’s still fun and interesting.
I don’t know what the difference is, or how to get my outcome instead of the 4channers, but I just wanted to share an opposite anecdote.
Gladaed@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Work is work
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Not really.
I hated work most of my life, and then got some good career guidance from a book called “Discover What You Are Best At.”
I found a job that used my talents in a way that kept me interested.
You don’t have to work on passion projects like art or research to be content.
Just find something where you feel engaged.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 weeks ago
I managed to find very interesting jobs couple of times. After a year or two management changes, projects change, co-workers change. Many things make work “fun” and you usually don’t control any of it. My last company in couple of years went from nice place to work to corporate shithole with low morale. Had to stay interested in a place like that.
glimse@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Your last two sentences defeat what came before…
Work is work. It’s not passion projects, it’s work. You don’t have to love it
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Academia killed my love of reading. I can’t even read for pleasure anymore
alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s what high school did to me. I had a nasty reading disability (still do) but these days I just reread shit when it doesn’t sink in. And if I still don’t get it, I just keep rereading it until it finally does. Simple, right? Well high school me spent god knows how long obsessing over how to fix my reading problems, even though the solution was pretty simple
restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
So true. As a kid a was in a booklovers’ mail club where I’d get a couple books appropriate for my age and I loved it. I always was working through something up through high school and college.
But grad school required reading hundreds of pages of research for class every week and I was just exhausted from it. I think I only made it through the Harry Potter books throughout my PhD. I go through periods where I’ll get through a couple books, and there’s a few writers I follow, but I haven’t gotten back to loving reading the way I used to.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
yeah, having to read and pretend to understand a hundred or so pages of legal briefs every day was… not good. i wasn’t even in laws school.
gmtom@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
???
They tought us about imaginary numbers in A levels (16-17) here, do they not even teach them in undergrad in the US??? I struggle to believe that.
dion_starfire@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
OP isn’t referencing “the imaginary numbers” as in the set of numbers that are multiples of the square root of -1. They’re referencing the fact that in grad school, you’re told “forget everything you’ve been taught about math up to now. We’re going to start with a couple of basic assumptions, and extrapolate all of Cartesian Algebra (the math taught in preschool through undergrad) from those assumptions. Now, let’s see what other algebras we can create by changing those assumptions.”
The only two “numbers” that need to exist to derive all of Cartesian Algebra are zero (additive identity) and one (multiplicative identity). All other numbers are just convenient identifiers that can be extrapolated rather than assumed, hence the overly simplified “all numbers are imaginary”.
This is similar to other STEM subjects, like how in Physics you’re taught Newtonian physics, then you’re taught why Newtonian physics is just a tiny subset of relativistic physics, and then in grad school you are taught everything you know is just a tiny subset of quantum mechanics. What’s taught in undergrad is “good enough” for your average person to do really complex things in typical day to day life, but for someone dedicating their academic career to the subject, they need to learn the dirty, overly complex details to have a true understanding of the subject.
notthebees@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
They’re just memeing
jve@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They taught you that “all numbers are imaginary” in A levels?
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I used to like math too
when were were counting lil squares on the paper and when were awarded a piece of candy or one of those smelly erasers
but then they were like “hey why don’t you just solve this simple problem? its about identifying perpendicular lines on a graph to find an angle measure in a right triangle. but were not gonna tell you what the number is. hell, were not even gonna give you a graph. or a pencil. or a paper. you’re gonna have to make your own paper and pencil. and here’s a essay for some fucking reason, cause this is math and you need to write a fucking 31 page ESSAY about TRIANGLES!!!”
that was math for me :)
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I have never looked at math and saw this beauty people describe. Math to me is as beautiful as an angle grinder, it’s a useful tool that hates you and plots your demise.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Borwein is incredibly interesting. Thank you for sharing
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
See that seems like the kind of thing Matt Parker would make a video about, “Someone noticed a weird pattern in some numbers.” Like how 2 pi or the fibonacci sequence keep turning up in nature, and I just can’t muster up much more than a “…huh” about it. I mean I understand margesimpsonpotato.jpg but if you want me to do calculus you’re gonna have to bring me more than “I just think they’re neat.”
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Uh… I did learn about imaginary numbers in high school. It was part of the ranking test to get into uni, even.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
There’s a difference between imaginary numbers and all numbers are imaginary.
BIANAM (but I am not a mathematician)
tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
I worked in the MMO industry and played a lot of them, including ones I didn't want to (and some that never saw the light of day or folded almost immediately). The last one I kept playing was Rift: Planes of Telara and, when they did an overhaul of stuff, I couldn't be bothered to learn all the new stuff and just quit. That was probably 15ish years ago at this point. It also kinda ruined a lot of gaming for me for years. I do play games again now, and I do sometimes feel the itch for an MMO, but I haven't played one again.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Only numbers that are imaginary are those that do not correlate to real world quantities
cammoblammo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You know the old saying, ‘Get a job doing the thing you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life!’?
That’s really bad advice. Get a job doing something you like, but not your passion. If you burn out on your passion, you’ve lost the thing that brings you joy.
Signtist@bookwyr.me 2 weeks ago
People always ask why I don’t turn my hobby into a job, and this is the response I give. If the thing I do to unwind from my job becomes my job, what will I do to unwind from my job?
theneverfox@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Ah, we’ve solved this in America. You go to your second, minimum wage, job. There your skills will not be valued and your work conditions will much worse
This will leave you exhausted and make you yearn for your normal job again
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
The real advice is to realize that every job has components that are not fun.
There are professional athletes who still love to play their sport, and intend to retire into coaching, but hate dealing with marketing and promos and media availability. Lots hate the travel. Some don’t like some of their teammates or coaches.
I know doctors who hate dealing with the paperwork, and programmers who hate dealing with documentation or testing, and lawyers who hate tracking their timesheets. But each of these are part of the job. The question is whether the entire bundled package deal is a pretty good job or not for yourself.
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This also happens when people who love to cook at home get convinced to open a restaurant. There’s a reason why restaurants have cooks/chefs and managers that do the admin stuff, and loads of other delegation. Cooking food and giving it to people you know for free when they’re at your home is not the same as asking a world full of Karens to pay for your take on Mac n Cheese
stelelor@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
That’s a great way of putting it. Unfortunately, the drudgery of each job is rarely explained or even acknowledged to young people entering the workforce. That’s how we end up with burnt out people in their 20s and 30s.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Yeah, this is 100 percent true. It doesn’t even have to be what you do for a living. I used to really enjoy cooking, but once I got a family and had to cook meals every day, whether I felt like it or not, it became a chore. As chores go, it was still better than most, but it stopped being something I looked forward to.