Finding your calling

Both in hobbies and career prospects, I can never nail down that thing that I can really feel passionate about. I've jumped between cooking, 3d modelling, programming, cyber security, engineering, and drafting. I was pretty good at most of them, but they just don't stick to me. I've even decided on taking a break from college until I can figure out something that truly interests me. Have you lainons been through this? How did you find your niche?

> cooking, 3d modelling, programming, cyber security, engineering, and drafting Design an automated chef that allows you to create tasty and visually attractive meals and prepare them for while you're sitting on a terminal at work across town, so dinner is served when you get home. Transmit the instructions through secure means so jealous neighbors can't hack in and steal your recipes.

Keep at it, try new things and keep an open mind. Eventually you will find some kind of project that you can invest your skill in and produce something that you can be happy to work on.

Yeah, been through that a few times. I get good enough at some area to view the whole problem space, then begin creating things at the bleeding edge, then something strange happens and everything's scrapped and big players beat me to market. Happened several times now. Then I figured out how politics works. Govs exist basically as cover for corporate espionage. last thing I did was develop an in-home virtual assistant, one that doesn't send all your details to a 3rd party (spy friendly) company, one that works for you, learns what you like, not based off a database of other users but YOUR individual activities, and doesn't turn you into a product. Got it efficient enough it could run on less than a rack of servers before some really shady soykaf went down. Then two years later, Google Home Mini is debuted followed by Alexa... My system would track items by sound or video (and it wasn't creepy because the data never left your home), so you could ask it "where's suzy" or "where's my keys" > "Suzy was last seen in the den". > "Keys last identified by sound in living room". You won't get these features for a few more years yet. technology is suppressed. tech is actually far more advanced than the public knows about, but it's dolled out slowly to milk the public and make the folks in the secret clubs richer. My advice would be: Don't get too good at a niche, the powers that be control the release of new technologies in order to control wealth through monopolization of the "innovator class". If you're not in their club you will not be allowed to prosper. Just hit something hard, sell to a megacorp and run away, do something else. If you get too deep they'll want blackmail material on you and have ways to put you between the rock and a hard place. Go read "confessions of an economic hitman" for a small sample. Or just stay out of innovative fields and make some service oriented soykaf -- or be a wage slave to some megacorp. It's either that or go WAY off the grid. Once they notice you, you're on their radar for life. It's best if you have nothing to lose and your family can't be used against you. Oh to be young and ignorant about how the world works again... TL;DR: All the really interesting soykaf is controlled and suppressed. if you ever figure out how the world really works, good luck... this realm is sh¡t.

This is hard to explain, but don't get trapped into thinking too hard about endgame goals. Heres a stupid example: do you want to be an astronaut? Of course you do, pretty much anyone would take that job if it were just handed to them, but it would be pointless to pursue that as a goal if you arent actually interested in the knowledge, skills, and abilities it takes to become an astronaut. You might just be attracted to the idea of what you could be, but not care about the material itself. I guess the point is that you have to pick things that you still enjoy even when you aren't any good at them. I think you should focus on figuring out generally what you want to study I'm college. It doesn't need to be any more specific than "I want to work with computers" for instance. If you know that, you won't be wasting your time by working on a computer science degree. College will help you narrow down further, and its easy enough to switch from general comp sci to something more specific if that's what you want to do.

I have heard similar stories about people making primitive personal cloud computing services well before the concept was even conceived in the corporate world, and all of a sudden, every corporation started with a "cloud data storage - totally not spyware" service

>>9477 >3d printing food architecture for weddings, parties, and corporate events using a modified 3d printer and candy as a material

>>9491 See, this Lain is using the old gray matter.

>>9490 I mean public unix servers like SDF have been around forever

I've always just kinda followed my nose. Whenever I hear something interesting, I read up on it. I've been a huge nerd for any number of subjects in my life but I've finally settled on my field.

>>10555 May I ask what field that is, and how you settled on it? I feel I am sort of similar. Every now and then I will find something new and interesting, then obsess over that for a while and get a decent amount of knowledge. This can last from days to months, and sometimes longer. I can't seem to settle on anything though.

I really like reading philosophy books but i decided on CS, because there is no job after philosophy degree. I thought i like programming, but now i am not so sure about that, its just reading obscure documentation, googling problems and installing some soykaf. Most of the time i just use other people's software, i dont feel like i am programmer, just like a user

>>10606 >its just reading obscure documentation, googling problems and installing some soykaf being a professional software engineer/programmer is like this, but that's not really computer science. you might want to read up on contemporary computer science research to see if any of it interests you. these days much of it has to do with machine learning, for better or worse, but there is still active research in hardware/architecture, compilers, algorithms, parallel processing, cryptography, networking... you name it.

>>10607 irony is i need to make Histogram of own data in R and i dont even know statistics. My school is soykaf - practice before theory. So i need to browse some old forums, looking for how to connect JSON api with authentication to my Shiny app, without showing password token to everyone (and non-existent Shiny documentation is not helping), instead of cracking Statistics book open so i actually know what i am doing

>>10609 take grad classes (as an undergrad) if you can. those will be more theory-focused. i assume you're an undergrad computer science student? a math minor might be worth looking into if you wanted to go the academic CS route. i'm just throwing out ideas, of course. you might hate academic research just as much as you hate being a code monkey.

I have the opposite problem. Lots of things interest me but I can't seem to get very good at any of them. I don't enjoy being a half-baked anything long enough to be a good something. Then I end up hating what I was doing.

>>10986 Isn't that kind of the same thing? I mean sure I have an initial interest in a lot of things but I know that i'm going to do exactly what you do so I don't really qualify that as "interest".