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deanofmean
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Re: Mycological Career? [Re: FungusMan]
#5671181 - 05/25/06 12:58 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Stay in school, and study, study, study. Research is where the money is.
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indianprincess
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Re: Mycological Career? [Re: deanofmean]
#5674364 - 05/25/06 07:37 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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When a hobby turns into your career, it then becomes work. Sometimes the thing you loved to do becomes a chore, and it loses it's special appeal. I've been down that road. Hobbies and careers are very different and have very different demands.
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toole
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indianprincess said: When a hobby turns into your career, it then becomes work. Sometimes the thing you loved to do becomes a chore, and it loses it's special appeal. I've been down that road. Hobbies and careers are very different and have very different demands.
Lmao, just because that is what happened in your hypothetical or (real?) scenario-doesn't mean anything for the "X" other users.
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indianprincess
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Re: Mycological Career? [Re: toole]
#5674495 - 05/25/06 08:15 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Twice I have tried to turn a hobby into a career and both times it ended with me disliking something that a had previously enjoyed immensely. IME
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toole
white-thumb (Onewhackmycophiliac)
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But that is just you is all I'm saying.
I know exactly what you mean, it's happened to many.
I'm just getting at-let 'that' person decide to do what and when.
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mycogirl
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Re: Mycological Career? [Re: deanofmean]
#5685634 - 05/29/06 04:37 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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deanofmean said: Stay in school, and study, study, study. Research is where the money is.
Those color coded action words scream bio lecture power point...
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tonyperez420
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Re: Mycological Career? [Re: mycogirl]
#5720228 - 06/06/06 07:02 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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pay shroomery and become a sponsor... make kits, ready to inoculate jars, buy a bunch of equip at wholesale and sell it individually at retail, pretend that you get your spores from a country where it is legal, and steal everybody's ideas like mycoshack (by the way what happened to them, hippiechick must have killed them lol)
am I correct???
personally i love growing psycadelic shrooms that make people trip balls... its actually the most successful thing I have done in my life, i guess I found my niche my motivation is to grow more efficiently and stronger, more potent shrooms that help people encounter a different reality, help them find themselves...
I love my job!
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Wowbobwow12
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Re: Mycological Career? [Re: demiu5]
#5729444 - 06/09/06 02:26 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Demlus, you sound just lke me. I'm starting a second B.A. in the fall for horticulture, something you may want to consider if you want to go the plant route, as opposed to botany. I'm keeping mycology, or plant pathology, as many universities call their programs, in mind however. Either caring for plants or fungi in a scientific/research position would be a heavenly life. You should consider looking at a couple of interesting programs I found while researching my own future.
Penn State Penn State's Mushroom Spawn Lab Washington State University Oregon State
Also, check out Peterson's plant pathology undergrad/graduate program searcher: Petersons search page
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demiu5
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Re: Mycological Career? [Re: Wowbobwow12]
#5729853 - 06/09/06 06:35 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I'll look at those this afternoon after work. Thanks.
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2FiNiTe
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Registered: 06/12/06
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Re: Mycological Career? [Re: toole]
#5769059 - 06/19/06 06:06 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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toole said: Seriously-look at the scientific fields opposed to the commercial ones. Sitting in a lab all day long crossing mushrooms and experimenting (aka having fun?) And on the side growing psilocybin mushrooms -
..uh count me in?
all hail
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cappa
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Re: Mycological Career? [Re: 2FiNiTe]
#5771104 - 06/20/06 01:44 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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I've spoken to too many experienced humans(old farts (50+) about making a hobby into a business.
Never spoken with one yet that said they enjoyed it after a while. Some of them were successful with it in a business sense. But most basically said the same thing. They lost enjoyment for their favorite hobby.
-------------------- Their are 10 types of people. Those that understand binary, and those who don't. ~Cappa.
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CoolMojo
Imagination iswhat you make ofit
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Re: Mycological Career? [Re: cappa]
#5788450 - 06/25/06 02:12 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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I worked at a business that was doing a hobby, for a guy who started it as a hobby. He loved it, I loved it. It depends on how u do it though. Generally speaking if the job is fun, it doesn't pay well (there are exceptions) So the first thing you have to do is relize your probly gonna have to take a paycut.
Next make sure your doing it for the right reasons. If your looking todo it because you want to enjoy working...your gonna hate it. This is where you end up like all these other posts say, after awhile its no longer fun its just work.
The key is todo it for acomplishment. The work we did was hot, sweaty, HARD work. It sucked, it sucked bad. The reason I loved it was at the end of the day, I could look at something I had made with my own hands. I could see how much better I'd become then when I started. I had a sense of acomplishment.
Basically it boils down to, turning a hobby into a job is not the same as turning a passion into a job.
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automan
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Re: Mycological Career? [Re: CoolMojo]
#5789000 - 06/25/06 09:47 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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CoolMojo said: The reason I loved it was at the end of the day, I could look at something I had made with my own hands. I could see how much better I'd become then when I started. I had a sense of acomplishment.
thats the reason i left college. i was a chemistry major. my entire life, though, i really enjoyed working on my and friends guitars and other stringed instrument. i decided to take some time off and work on that craft. 2 years later i was working in the gibson custom shop building instruments for some of the best musicians in the world. it was awesome to find out that after years of thinking that i wanted some sort of mental job, i wound up doing something with my hands. nothing feels better than starting with blank materials and having a finished product at the end of the day, whether it be a guitar or a computer program or website or whatever.
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oneslug
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my uncle paul stamets started his career writing books and studying mycology. but now he grows "all" kinds of mushrooms and sells them to resturaunts etc.
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toole
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Re: Mycological Career? [Re: oneslug]
#5810344 - 07/01/06 05:15 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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oneslug said: my uncle paul stamets started his career writing books and studying mycology. but now he grows "all" kinds of mushrooms and sells them to resturaunts etc.
Doubtful.
But if that man is your uncle..I'd keep my ears clean when he speaks.
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RogerRabbit
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Re: Mycological Career? [Re: toole]
#5812128 - 07/02/06 11:06 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Actually, he started his career hunting, tripping, and growing cubes to sell to college students. The writing part came ten years later. RR
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toole
white-thumb (Onewhackmycophiliac)
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Re: Mycological Career? [Re: RogerRabbit]
#5812351 - 07/02/06 12:22 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Hahaha
Did you all know my aunt is Hillary Clinton? :P
She started off blowing away the competition and eating lots of mushrooms.
Vote Hillary.
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davesj1
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Re: Mycological Career? [Re: toole]
#5813590 - 07/02/06 08:53 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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A BS in biology is pretty easy. Dont sweat it. Organic is the only thing that gets irtritating, but as long as you stay on top of it definately doable. Im about to get my BS in Bio. Then grad school for either evolutionary bio, sociobio or microbiology.
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toole
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Re: Mycological Career? [Re: davesj1]
#5813677 - 07/02/06 09:09 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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That's awesome Dave.
I wish I persued traditional college right out of high school, I may return and put my hands towards biology.
Evolutionary Biology, now that sounds like some fun.
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davesj1
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Re: Mycological Career? [Re: toole]
#5813695 - 07/02/06 09:14 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Yes it deos. Unfortunately there isnt that much profit in it. Thats why im keeping micro open as an option.
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