New Job
I’m tentatively hired at a local science museum! They can’t legally offer me the job until HR clears me, makes sure I’m not a multiple felon, makes sure I’m legal to work, etc, but I’m 99% certain that I’ve got the job, and its very exciting! The job consists of giving fun science demos and shows to kids and adults, helping with tabletop science experiments, and walking around the gallery asking people stimulating questions about the exhibits. The mission of the museum, which I would be entrusted with on a day to day basis, is making people excited about science, and keep learning about it fun and stimulating. Basically, my dream job. It doesn’t pay a whole lot, and it doesn’t have a lot of hours, but boy, it looks like a really fun, interesting job.
Its like the Simpsons episode where Homer quits his job at the power-plant to do what he always dreamed of doing. Work as a pin-monkey at a bowling alley. Now, some might feel that my dream job is a bit more refined, but its the same idea. Shrug off the shackles of your drudgerous work-a-day job, and go do what you really want to do! Now, I probably couldn’t get away with this if I had kids or a big expensive car to pay off, but as a reasonably frugal person without a family to support, I’m in dream job city. Of course, it has taken me 4 months to find my dream job, which I couldn’t have gotten away with if it weren’t for the assistance of friends and family, but its finally looking like it’ll pay off.
In other news, I’m getting a tax refund, and the original scooter thief is finally going to trial. Everything is comin’ up Sam!
3 comments Thursday 13 Mar 2003 | Sam | Personal
Congratulations indeed! It sounds like a true dream job! It’s been a long time backup-plan/dream of mine to try a stunt as a physics teacher to try to get students encouraged to discover the way science can help explain the world around us
Thanks for the congrats. Maybe this will inspire you to go ahead with your physics teacher dream! Its certainly fun and exciting work, helping teach science in a way that makes people excited about finding things out, rather than bored because they know you are eventually going to bring up math.
If you are into physics, and more importantly, how to think about science in a way that keeps it fresh and facinating, I highly recommend reading books by Richard P. Fenyman, such as “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Fenyman” which is a collection of his writings. He was a nobel prize winning physicist, but some of his biggest contributions to science wasn’t his discoveries, but the sense of amazement and childlike wonder he saw in it all. He is an amazingly interesting and inspiring man to read about.
Hey Sam, Congrats on the job. I assume they will not uncover your seedy past and ruin your job opportunities, because that was in a past life when you were a Hun and sacked Rome. I bet you don’t remember that, but my sister said it happened. Ah, sis.
Seriously, you are perfect for that type of work, stay with it.
Dad