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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
Sounds like a good plan and one you are comfortable with.
I understand what you are saying about your job. There are ways of balancing your desire to do something that makes a difference and work for a company. You simply need to find a company that is doing work in areas you think are important. I don't know what type of research you are doing so it is hard for me to provide anything concrete.
All I know is I ended up working in an area I never thought I would have, and would have flat our rejected coming out of college, and feel like what I am doing is making a difference and is important. You don't know until you look around and think outside the box a bit.
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Right now I do research for the Belgian Road Safety Institute. Everything I do has one major goal: reduce the number of accidents on Belgian roads. It's a job with a social engagement. I don't want to do marketresearch, where the goal of everything you do is making sure the company that hired you is making more money. (Although I've been on an interview with a marketresearch company, I'm glad they didn't hire me!).
One last glass of water before going out for lunch.