David_Gerard comments on Best career models for doing research? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: David_Gerard 08 December 2010 01:03:25AM *  2 points [-]

Not without getting political. Fundamentally, I didn't feel good about what I was doing. And I was just a Unix sysadmin.

This was just a job to live, not a job taken on in the furtherance of a larger goal.