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Journeyman · 09-20-2003, 10:50 PM

I dicked around in community college for a year and a half untill I took psychology with a flat-out astounding professor. I dunno whether it was the subject or the teacher, but I put my major down as psych and ended up taking every course offered there (grand total of 10 I think) before I realized that I would hate counseling people with problems, don't like to see people in drug-equivalent straight jackets (think Jack Nicholson in Cuckoo's Nest), and wouldn't enjoy whoring myself to major corporation R&D.

Then one day I read about neural prosthetics, wherein they can tag neurons with the task of firing off electric devices, so that you can "think" a switch on or off just like you can "think" your finger into moving an actual switch on or off. It's a new field, with a lotta potential for helping people with disabilities (or a pension for playing video games like GODS!). It'll have a decent pay in it. I could, considering the actual market compared with the amount of companies working in it, open up my own company to research and produce if I had some money backing me. It's got everything I want.

And much later, once mentally commiting myself to this, I had a great realization: Pentagon funding. Lots of veterans who need their limbs replaced, government money there. Lots of applications in military technology for direct mind-to-electronic interface, government money there too.

So now I know what I want, education comes next. Guess I sorta lucked out that way.

09-20-2003, 10:50 PM	#15 (permalink)
Journeyman Like John Goodman, but not. Location: SFBA, California	I dicked around in community college for a year and a half untill I took psychology with a flat-out astounding professor. I dunno whether it was the subject or the teacher, but I put my major down as psych and ended up taking every course offered there (grand total of 10 I think) before I realized that I would hate counseling people with problems, don't like to see people in drug-equivalent straight jackets (think Jack Nicholson in Cuckoo's Nest), and wouldn't enjoy whoring myself to major corporation R&D. Then one day I read about neural prosthetics, wherein they can tag neurons with the task of firing off electric devices, so that you can "think" a switch on or off just like you can "think" your finger into moving an actual switch on or off. It's a new field, with a lotta potential for helping people with disabilities (or a pension for playing video games like GODS!). It'll have a decent pay in it. I could, considering the actual market compared with the amount of companies working in it, open up my own company to research and produce if I had some money backing me. It's got everything I want. And much later, once mentally commiting myself to this, I had a great realization: Pentagon funding. Lots of veterans who need their limbs replaced, government money there. Lots of applications in military technology for direct mind-to-electronic interface, government money there too. So now I know what I want, education comes next. Guess I sorta lucked out that way.