Scientific Success: What’s Love Got to Do With It?

Scientific Success: What’s Love Got to Do With It?

A coincidental find of this article revealing the trails and tribulations of juggling a scientific career and maintaining a relationship, particularly marriage.

No particular new insights or revelations actually, but reading all these personal observations and conjured thoughts in the form of a written article just adds to the accuracy and certainty of it all. Especially hearing anecdotes of scientists lamenting on all the regrets for choosing this path!

Of course to make it a more credible article, one must offer a balanced viewpoint and seek out alternative cases. But one can't help but wonder how much effort the author has to plough through in order to squeeze out that single sub-topic (out of a total seven) espousing the virtues of being in a relationship while persuing a scientific career.

The saddest thing of all is that those relationships that worked depended solely on people you meet in the same field of research. That, in my current situation, amounts to no more than ten likely candidates per year.

If the government had known about these sad facts of a scientist's life earlier, they would probably have issued an outright ban on research and development instead of praising its potential as a ticket to prosperity! i wonder if they are prepared for single-handedly contributing to the lower reproductive success of our most-talented scholars. i guess they can probably grant them life-time memberships to the government's match-making club!