job thoughts
This job came across my twitter feed today:
http://www.kgs.ku.edu/General/jobs/J00008422.html
This is the kind of job I want. I don't want to be trapped in the world of billable hours and keeping clients happy. I am happiest when I am teaching and free to learn as much as possible at the same time. I think a lot about my work, as it takes up just so damn much of my time and intellectual energy. I resent my work, as it keeps me from having brain left over to think about the kind of geological and cultural issues I so love to think about. The sciences and the humanities overlap and braid together, and I take umbrage at the way so many scientists raise a great noise about how their science is uncontaminated by the biases and emotions of the humanities.
I alternate between laughing and crying. The world is full of so much forced, artificial duality that I cannot see creating more. Like most of humankind's foibles, this tendency springs from ego. The answer to reining in ego is not more rules, restrictions, and divisions, but rather more heart. My calling, my profession, lies at the intersection of science and heart.
More to come on this, as I think about it nearly every day. But today I feel the need for whole-hearted work keenly, reminded that I struggle with how to bring that to work in an industry that feels fundamentally barren of compassion and collaboration.
http://www.kgs.ku.edu/General/jobs/J00008422.html
This is the kind of job I want. I don't want to be trapped in the world of billable hours and keeping clients happy. I am happiest when I am teaching and free to learn as much as possible at the same time. I think a lot about my work, as it takes up just so damn much of my time and intellectual energy. I resent my work, as it keeps me from having brain left over to think about the kind of geological and cultural issues I so love to think about. The sciences and the humanities overlap and braid together, and I take umbrage at the way so many scientists raise a great noise about how their science is uncontaminated by the biases and emotions of the humanities.
I alternate between laughing and crying. The world is full of so much forced, artificial duality that I cannot see creating more. Like most of humankind's foibles, this tendency springs from ego. The answer to reining in ego is not more rules, restrictions, and divisions, but rather more heart. My calling, my profession, lies at the intersection of science and heart.
More to come on this, as I think about it nearly every day. But today I feel the need for whole-hearted work keenly, reminded that I struggle with how to bring that to work in an industry that feels fundamentally barren of compassion and collaboration.