Is there a job at the end?

So reading Trey's recent blog posts has made me think about my future in terms of what job is going to make me happy? I think that I have already decided that I don't want to be in academia, mostly because I don't think that I am cutthroat enough so screw people over if the need arises. Plus, I would much prefer to science for the sake a knowledge, not for personal glory. I remember going to lecture at Purdue about the discovery of the structure of DNA by Watson and Crick. The lecturer basically said that Watson and Crick were able to figure out the structure because they had access to bits and pieces of discoveries from other researchers. Even though Roselind Franklin knew the helix configuration, she was not aware of the work of Chargaff about the base pairing. But the lecture made me think about how Roselind Franklin felt about her x-ray crystallography picture being taken by her research partner Wilkins to Watson and Crick. She never really received credit for her work on the determination of the structure because she was dead by the time Watson, Crick and Wilkins received the Noble Prize. After the lecture, I began reading the biography of Franklin written by Brenda Maddox called the "The Dark Lady of DNA". Based on that book, I got the impression that Franklin was doing science for the sake of science and to increase our understanding of the surrounding world. So it has made me think about why I chose to go into the field of science and what it is that I like about science. And I've realized that I do want to know how/why things exist or work. Even though there are "laws of science" in the life sciences, there always is some flexibility because we don't know ever single organism and ever single biological process. The more I learn about the world, the more I am amazed that we ended up with the world we did. There is something inherently beautiful about both the complexity and the simplicity of the world.
My mom came home from Germany on Friday. And she brought me the coolest gift an England World Cup T-shirt (with a hat!). But England lost on Saturday by penalty shoot out to Portugal. But France beat Brazil so it's okay. On Sunday, we had a huge thunderstorm at our house. Lightning struck near our house and effected some stuff, but hopefully it will be fixed today. But the rain put a damper on my plan to pick blackraspberries on Sunday, so I will have to do that tonight. There is a king of the hill marathon on today so I am looking forward to that!

"They make us say these asinine things like 'Easy there grumpy bear' and 'Relax Mr. Angryslacks"-Hank Hill