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6/17/2025, 9:37:37 PM
Gonna try and see how many posts I knock out today. Travel day Wed-Thu.
>>40060242
>missed it sorry.
Don't worry, it's why I pinged! Things happen, I miss posts too at times and need a reminder.
>I find these questions hard to answer well.
The questions are extremely difficult and hard to answer by design, that was very much on purpose. This discussion reached a bit of a breakthrough because of them though, I feel. As you said, your career, the army, the specifics of your occupation and even the development of skills are, all in all, means to an end. You worry about one particular path to your actual goal closing off. Navy, I gotta be direct with you. What you describe as a desire is good and nurturing and ultimately beautiful, but thoughts like >>40089257 haunt you because you have narrowed yourself down to a single approach, the one that by now is the one most familiar (=least scary). Let's talk the job angle first. I think you gotta diversify the places you are looking for. The only reason one door closing is scary to you is because you got too invested and it ended up being the only door you knocked right now. You gotta diversify.
>Prosthetics was what got me into my degree.
Do you see a chance to slip into that career path?
>robotics/mechatronics, which is what my degree is in
This should open the door to a diverse set of opportunities right? From what I hear is that, in principle any kind of R&D that involves tinkering and teaching other people would have you thrive. Which brings me to a very, VERY radical second option; what you describe doesn't even have to be grounded in your job at all. Like, being relied upon, being a source of wisdom and skill? That's all stuff that people who want to raise a family yearn for, or people doing community work. You seem a people person first and a career person second or third. Don't break your back over the means to your actual end!
>I'll have to keep trying to get a decent answer
and yes, keep dwelling on it!
>>40060242
>missed it sorry.
Don't worry, it's why I pinged! Things happen, I miss posts too at times and need a reminder.
>I find these questions hard to answer well.
The questions are extremely difficult and hard to answer by design, that was very much on purpose. This discussion reached a bit of a breakthrough because of them though, I feel. As you said, your career, the army, the specifics of your occupation and even the development of skills are, all in all, means to an end. You worry about one particular path to your actual goal closing off. Navy, I gotta be direct with you. What you describe as a desire is good and nurturing and ultimately beautiful, but thoughts like >>40089257 haunt you because you have narrowed yourself down to a single approach, the one that by now is the one most familiar (=least scary). Let's talk the job angle first. I think you gotta diversify the places you are looking for. The only reason one door closing is scary to you is because you got too invested and it ended up being the only door you knocked right now. You gotta diversify.
>Prosthetics was what got me into my degree.
Do you see a chance to slip into that career path?
>robotics/mechatronics, which is what my degree is in
This should open the door to a diverse set of opportunities right? From what I hear is that, in principle any kind of R&D that involves tinkering and teaching other people would have you thrive. Which brings me to a very, VERY radical second option; what you describe doesn't even have to be grounded in your job at all. Like, being relied upon, being a source of wisdom and skill? That's all stuff that people who want to raise a family yearn for, or people doing community work. You seem a people person first and a career person second or third. Don't break your back over the means to your actual end!
>I'll have to keep trying to get a decent answer
and yes, keep dwelling on it!
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