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Just some food for thought - having come from the world of math & physics, I understand what is at its core an elitest attitude on the purity of a discipline. However, I don’t think most of those who have that attitude understand how much of a luxury it is to be able to have that. After leaving grad school for math after 4 years, I spent a hard 2 1/2 years looking for work in anything. Money was hard to come by, I lived primarily off of my Marine reserve pay - I had enlisted in the Marine Corps in hopes it would help me with direction, financial future, and improve my chances of attaining any career track job. While I can still appreciate purity to an extent, it stops there when you don’t have enough money but to eat only oatmeal for a week. An aside, judging people for dress/class/language/etc. is pretty shitty - if you care about ideas, then surely these things are irrelevant, and there is some irony/contradictory attitutde being displayed by your words? Lastly, a lot of some of the stated assertions are just flat out not true/shows immaturity/insecurity/depth on your side. I would spend some time reflecting on what matters to you as a person, aside from career. There is a lot of implicit inhumane comments made in the exposition defending your conclusion, and if you want to be a successful person, at the very least you should understand your desires/worldview and how your conclusions derive from them, correcting if there is any incongruity. Maybe a career switch is indeed ultimately what you want - however, you should try understanding yourself before throwing away your years of study. |