If a person is looking for a way to make abundance of money in 1 or 2 years, drive good cars and wear good suits, then the answer is no. However, to point out that scientist life is boring and we care for nothing, then it is also not true. Scientist love to socialize. Scientist love good food. And off course money will make us smile all day. Above that, there is something that we call satisfaction that scientist treasure.
I can't talk for others. But watching a Japanese detective drama, Galileo can explained a bit about what is scientist life is all about. Similar to mine, I guess.
The main character is a Associate Professor who lead a physics laboratory. He was a genius who is considered weird but well acknowledge for his ability in the field. He love sports, art and good food. He seems to have no emotion towards life and very practical.
However, in one episode he explained to his co-star in the drama, a female detective that he was being snobbish towards life or human. Scientist is a person who have one hypothesis, keep repeating and adjusting the experiment until the hypothesis is proven and for the benefits of the people. In that episode, it showed that the Professor keep throwing out the hand phone while sending the message for help out of the small window of a broken ship where both of them were trapped as he hope that one point the message could be sent. This was because inside the broken ship, the signal can't be sent out. He managed at last to get the message sent and both of them were saved.
But there are other kind of scientist......
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