Keep focused, keep an up to date list of ten specific questions
May 20th, 2007- Does your immediate work answer questions that begin with “Are”, “Does”, or “Is”?
- Do you spend a shameful amount of your day checking for email, reading websites, and playing flash games?
- Do you find it a pain to get out of bed in the morning?
- Is reading the literature an extremely dull activity, and you rarely read a paper completely?
Ok, so these questions aren’t perfect. Nobody reads scientific papers for fun, and you’re a lucky person if you leap of bed with the expectation of a day solving the world’s scientific problems. But you get my point I’m trying to make. Being a computational scientist is hard work. No one really knows what you do, day-to-day. You have to be your own boss - is the next slice of code you write going to move you any closer to your goal?