Watch Your Step
I tripped across an old video for one of my favorite songs today. It brought me straight back to high school and some formative outtings with my buddy Ben. I’m roughly 60 days short of 40-years-old and fighting hard to heed Billy
I tripped across an old video for one of my favorite songs today. It brought me straight back to high school and some formative outtings with my buddy Ben. I’m roughly 60 days short of 40-years-old and fighting hard to heed Billy
I often ponder how folks come to choose their research or occupational pursuits. What motivated Bill to pursue a career in proctology? At what age did Sam decide he wanted to spend the rest of his working days filtering raw sewage? Did Rebecca’s ancestors also show a predisposition for stuying the optic nerves of Lebanese cows? Don’t get me wrong… I think it’s great that there are people in the world who are willing, or excited, to do research or hold jobs in fields that I don’t personally find desirable. But that doesn’t keep me from wondering how they came to love (or at least tolerate) what they do.
To illustrate my point, I offer Dr. Charles Roselli, a researcher at the Oregon Health and Science University. Dr. Roselli has taken a lot of unwarranted heat over his research into why some sheep are homosexual. I encourage you to read that article as it’s far more interesting than this absurd blog post and raises interesting questions about the worth of the “global news cycle,” the same news cycle that I believe is willfully misused by political parties to spread misinformation about their opponents.
But aside from all the controversy, I just can’t help but ask myself, can Dr. Roselli point to the exact moment in his past when it became painfully obvious that studying the sexual preferences of goats was his calling?
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