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Mundane world
Jan. 26th, 2025 01:18 pmIt's been one year and a couple of months since I left my university lab and started working as a medical lab technician operating big biochemical analyzers for blood and other body liquids.
This choice (I hope a temporary one) was made out of several reasons one of which is the ongoing war: the money that could be spent for science are now going to support the army, refugees, crumpling Ukrainian economy being destroyed by Russian bombs and drones etc etc. As if COVID pandemic was not devastating enough. Tough times, tough decisions - and my curses are to the monsters who started all this following their personal greed.
I love working with the devices, I simply adore it, I adore that amount of new and very practical knowledge I'm getting every day at my new job.
But I'm devastated by some people. I say 'some' because most of my colleagues are very nice and intelligent, and they do their job much better than me. I'm devastated by some literally square-minded individuals for whom me is just another machine and that machine is prone to malfunctioning. When a machine malfunctions, they kick it as hard as possible in a stupid assumption it will work better afterwards.
But that's not what surprises me - I've seen such idiots before.
I'm surprised about the difference in how my mind and my colleagues' mind works. They are technical in their mind, their brain does not think about the Universe or global laws but is very good at seeing how the mechanism operates, why it stops operating correctly and how to get it back to be operational again. They are much better in noticing and understanding the technicalities of what we do every day.
Also I can't help noticing (and that works for scientific jobs too) that if one is outside the system, reading 1000 books about the system won't help understanding it the way people inside understand it. For many things there is no other way to understand them than literally try, same as the best way to understand what a pineapple tastes like is to get and actually taste it.
This choice (I hope a temporary one) was made out of several reasons one of which is the ongoing war: the money that could be spent for science are now going to support the army, refugees, crumpling Ukrainian economy being destroyed by Russian bombs and drones etc etc. As if COVID pandemic was not devastating enough. Tough times, tough decisions - and my curses are to the monsters who started all this following their personal greed.
I love working with the devices, I simply adore it, I adore that amount of new and very practical knowledge I'm getting every day at my new job.
But I'm devastated by some people. I say 'some' because most of my colleagues are very nice and intelligent, and they do their job much better than me. I'm devastated by some literally square-minded individuals for whom me is just another machine and that machine is prone to malfunctioning. When a machine malfunctions, they kick it as hard as possible in a stupid assumption it will work better afterwards.
But that's not what surprises me - I've seen such idiots before.
I'm surprised about the difference in how my mind and my colleagues' mind works. They are technical in their mind, their brain does not think about the Universe or global laws but is very good at seeing how the mechanism operates, why it stops operating correctly and how to get it back to be operational again. They are much better in noticing and understanding the technicalities of what we do every day.
Also I can't help noticing (and that works for scientific jobs too) that if one is outside the system, reading 1000 books about the system won't help understanding it the way people inside understand it. For many things there is no other way to understand them than literally try, same as the best way to understand what a pineapple tastes like is to get and actually taste it.
