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 Posted: Fri, 18th Mar 2011 10:15 Post subject: Know that feeling? |
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I've been pretty aimless in what I want to do with my life for pretty much all my life (I'm 23 years old now). Of course I've had the occasional feel for something that might be fun but nothing that has lasted, nothing that I truly wanted to do.
But for the last three years I've been getting more and more into music, specifically singing. It all started when I watching a live video of Queen and well, I was completely blown away with how extremely captivating Freddies singing was. Ever since then I've been practicing almost every day or so, even took vocal lessons. The lessons did give me some understanding I didn't have before but I didn't feel it gave me very much else.
For the record, I listen to a lot of different bands and singers, quite a varied genré to. I listen to Queen, Bruce Springsteen, Guns 'n Roses, Meatloaf, Bob Dylan and a bunch of other bands but Queen is still my all time favorite band, I just love the epicness of their songs.
Anyway, my question with the thread title is if you've had that feeling where you know you're doing something you really should be doing? I don't believe in fate or such but you know what I mean... It just makes you so happy doing whatever it is that you're doing and seeing yourself improve in it. I feel I've gotten quite the singing voice now, though I haven't "shown" it to anyone (except at the few vocal lessons I've had) yet and nor do I plan to since I'm no where near the level I want to be at but I know that I want to continue doing this for a very long time.
So have you had that feeling too and if you don't mind sharing, what was it? I'm quite interested in what some of you guys have as a passion (be it work or otherwise), I know some of you are scientists, some musicians, perhaps enlighten exactly what kind of science/music/instrument? 
And yes, I know singing isn't exactly an easy career choice but I'm not even sure I want this to be a "career" or anything, I just know it's extremely fun. I tried guitars but for now it's not my thing, perhaps later when I feel comfortable with the singing.
Cheers.
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Epsilon
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Good musical taste!
I hear that being a muscician is very tough, and theres quite a lot of work before you're anywhere near as successful as the people you see on tv. Don't believe talent shows.
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First off: good taste you have there 
I had that with a project I did at uni. I got to work on the IROMEC project for a while, debugged both the hardware and the software of the robot before executing some clinical trials together with a ergo therapist. You can find plenty on Google and Youtube about IROMEC, but in short it's a small robot designed to help children with disabilities (both mental and physical) learn. It does that through playing, so the robot is capable of following them and such, there's games to play, etcetera.
Apart from the fact that I love robotics, working with the children was just fucking incredible. Honestly, as relatively simple as the robot is in its behaviour, the way the children reacted to it was just priceless. One of them had given it a name within 5 minutes of "meeting" it, another one completely opened up out of her shell. I myself have a cousin with Hydrocephalus who definitely would've benefited from something like this when he was younger (17 now), and children with such disabilities are often incredibly affectionate, which in itself is already awesome. Definitely something I'd like to return to some day, as IT is still very young in that world, but we saw that it has HUGE potential.
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If it really does make you happy, do it. I don't care what it is (as long as it doesn't hurt others), you should do it.
But yeah, the thread isn't about that, but I just wanted to get it out of the way
I'm not really sure I've had the exact feeling you're talking about.. Something similar though, people seem to like to listen to me talk - I've been told, and know, that when I talk about a subject that I'm passionate about and enjoy discussing, I really get energetic and I get that obvious passion to it, if you know what I mean. I have been "practicing in my mind" about talking about things that I care about, know about and would like to share, to say a smaller (or bigger, whatever) audience. But I can't just say "hey, come on in and I'll talk shit on stage about things that I care about or like, or hate, or..", you get the point.
I'd like to, but you know..
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Doing what you like is perhaps the best recipe for a fulfilling life. I've heard a saying that people don't regret some of the things they do... but what they didn't do.
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| Posted: Fri, 18th Mar 2011 13:19 Post subject: |
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| Yondaime wrote: | Thanks for the replies, fun stuff!
Epsilon, software development, as in games or applications?
Werelds, get back to that robot asap!  I liked that.
SiN, sounds like you're having the same kind of feeling I had, try Youtube as an experiment? There are plenty of idiots talking in videos there, so why not balance it out with some good and fun talk videos? |
Well that's not a bad idea..
But as you say, there's thousands of idiots blabbering on about things on there already, I don't know if it would be hard to even get people to watch my video? Hm. Also, I'd prefer talking to real people, that way I could get real-time reactions, answer any questions that would pop up etc.. you know, have that crowd-connection, I'd love it..
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Well I like physics because it's ever changing and it's asking and answering the question most ppl don't want to bother with 
It's quite hard and requires a lot of studying and thinking, it has it's bad days, those when you think to your self: why did I need this? But there are also those great days when you figure something out or you realize you can explain some things to other ppl (you get that: wow, I wasn't aware I knew this stuff ). Also wondering that one day I might contribute to the science makes me feel kind proud
I also like graphic design, you know as a hobby, and I sometimes wonder what would have been if I choose graphic design instead of physics, but hey it's not that bad.
The point is, no matter what someone might think about the thing you like, it's important to pursue it.
If you like the thing you do, you'll succeed in it eventually, because you'll find a way to make the thing you like even better by throwing something unique in it, and it will make you happy.
For me that's the most important thing...
"Quantum mechanics is actually, contrary to it's reputation, unbeliveably simple, once you take the physics out."
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The world needs people who muck shit and sweep the streets. People worry too much. You don't need a purpose, there will be stuff to do anyway.
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| dingo_d wrote: | Well I like physics because it's ever changing and it's asking and answering the question most ppl don't want to bother with
It's quite hard and requires a lot of studying and thinking, it has it's bad days, those when you think to your self: why did I need this? But there are also those great days when you figure something out or you realize you can explain some things to other ppl (you get that: wow, I wasn't aware I knew this stuff ). Also wondering that one day I might contribute to the science makes me feel kind proud
I also like graphic design, you know as a hobby, and I sometimes wonder what would have been if I choose graphic design instead of physics, but hey it's not that bad.
The point is, no matter what someone might think about the thing you like, it's important to pursue it.
If you like the thing you do, you'll succeed in it eventually, because you'll find a way to make the thing you like even better by throwing something unique in it, and it will make you happy.
For me that's the most important thing... |
I'm also a great physics enthusiast, but I can't stop thinking that the majority of the scientific community are in sort of mind locked in a way of thinking with the whole Lambda CDM Model of the Big Bang, and the entirety of the standard model, and is treating this model as almost an absolute, when in fact there are more holes in it than in a Swiss cheese.
For instance, we have been creating concepts out of nothing without a shred of physical evidence, concepts like Dark Matter and Dark Energy, just to fit the model of General Relativity, and we are assuming that the universe is expanding because the further the light source the more red shifted it is, we are completely ignoring that light can suffer interference and always be naturally red shifted for long time periods.
I believe that considerable work is being done in the realm of particle physics, but when it comes to cosmology, we are heading backwards.
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| Posted: Fri, 18th Mar 2011 17:19 Post subject: |
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| Ronhrin wrote: | | dingo_d wrote: | Well I like physics because it's ever changing and it's asking and answering the question most ppl don't want to bother with
It's quite hard and requires a lot of studying and thinking, it has it's bad days, those when you think to your self: why did I need this? But there are also those great days when you figure something out or you realize you can explain some things to other ppl (you get that: wow, I wasn't aware I knew this stuff ). Also wondering that one day I might contribute to the science makes me feel kind proud
I also like graphic design, you know as a hobby, and I sometimes wonder what would have been if I choose graphic design instead of physics, but hey it's not that bad.
The point is, no matter what someone might think about the thing you like, it's important to pursue it.
If you like the thing you do, you'll succeed in it eventually, because you'll find a way to make the thing you like even better by throwing something unique in it, and it will make you happy.
For me that's the most important thing... |
I'm also a great physics enthusiast, but I can't stop thinking that the majority of the scientific community are in sort of mind locked in a way of thinking with the whole Lambda CDM Model of the Big Bang, and the entirety of the standard model, and is treating this model as almost an absolute, when in fact there are more holes in it than in a Swiss cheese.
For instance, we have been creating concepts out of nothing without a shred of physical evidence, concepts like Dark Matter and Dark Energy, just to fit the model of General Relativity, and we are assuming that the universe is expanding because the further the light source the more red shifted it is, we are completely ignoring that light can suffer interference and always be naturally red shifted for long time periods.
I believe that considerable work is being done in the realm of particle physics, but when it comes to cosmology, we are heading backwards. |
I don't think we are heading backwards. The problem with cosmology and astrophysics in general is that you cannot make simple experiments, just observations via satellites and telescopes.
And what ppl are making are models that can explain (with good gathered data) the universe around us. As we advance in technology I'm sure the models will change
"Quantum mechanics is actually, contrary to it's reputation, unbeliveably simple, once you take the physics out."
Scott Aaronson | chiv wrote: | | thats true you know. newton didnt discover gravity. the apple told him about it, and then he killed it. the core was never found. |
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I was lucky in that I wanted to knew what I wanted to do pretty early on. I started in programming because I though it was cool and was very proud of myself thinking only smart people can do it. (Was in grade school, started with HTML and JS)
Later on I stuck with it because I started getting good at it. And I think that's the key to liking something, if you're good at it, especially if you're better than the people you know, you end up being interested in it even more.
In high-school I discovered directx and fell in love with that. I was always a gamer, but never considered making games until then. I loved the concept of creating your own world with "living" entities. Another reason I liked game development because it allowed me to further my education in different areas. Programming alone is great, and I love all the problem solving, but after some time learning new things becomes pretty easy, and I feel it doesn't really contribute much to your overall growth.
With game development you really do need to know plenty of math and physics if you are to truly understand all the underlying algorithms. Especially in computer graphics. And that's where I'm at now, mostly expanding my knowledge in those fields.
I always had a dream of working on a large game project, but lately I stopped feeling like I want that. Primarily because I saw how it is working for those large companies, you just end up being a code-monkey, and even designing isn't half as fun since you depend on other people telling you what to do.
Currently I just feel like advancing my knowledge, buying a lot of books and working on various algorithm implementations. Although making an indie game is fun, and is something I am considering, because you can definitely make plenty of dough with a nice idea, I wouldn't learn much from the experience, seeing how it's doubtful I would be needing some advanced features that require intricate knowledge of the algorithms.
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| Posted: Fri, 18th Mar 2011 21:10 Post subject: |
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| Yondaime wrote: | Thanks for the replies, fun stuff!
Epsilon, software development, as in games or applications?
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Been working on game development for a while now, before that I was working a Microsoft.
Currently I'm on my 'third' game studio, the first two I was what bearish describes as codemonkey. Now we're just a couple of guys, and girls, trying to do something that we ourselves actually want to play. So far our "studio" which is really just a medium sized office is completely owned by the employees. |
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Oh don't get me wrong, I didn't design the software nor the hardware, but debugging it was still a pretty heavy task because it's all embedded. Great experience though
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). Found an internship. Got hired. Have done some pretty cool things that no one will get to see. (makes it better since I'm mostly shy about my work [never think it's good enough]) And now once in a while I think to myself maybe I would've had a better life studying literacy, or engineering shiet. But, nevertheless 90% of the time I'm happy.
