A slight deviation from the regular programming.
Recently I have been thinking about science or engineering consulting. I think people do this, but the consultants I have met mostly do business strategy consulting, where I think I would like to do technical consultancy. Like for laboratories or engineering firms. However, I don't know if viable, because it seems like the business would just be based on projects, and related possibly, or could get possibly stuck just working with university.
It seems like a good way to practice solving problems, as well as, you would get exposure to questions and problems you have never heard about, so in some ways very good to explore the space.
Another worry would be you get pigeonholed into a specific technology, like making buffers or something like that. However I guess that is also easier to do, then also you would have more steady work.
Or another possibility is you just do both, have steady kind of boring work, then do more crazy projects.
Balance.
In the current lab I am in, we do this often for other labs in academia, but recently we've been getting more companies working with us, and they keep offering to pay us, but for some reason we can't accept this, I think maybe based on work contracts. Weird though seems like you could have a consultancy in addition to your normal job.
Maybe side project.
Recently I have been thinking about science or engineering consulting. I think people do this, but the consultants I have met mostly do business strategy consulting, where I think I would like to do technical consultancy. Like for laboratories or engineering firms. However, I don't know if viable, because it seems like the business would just be based on projects, and related possibly, or could get possibly stuck just working with university.
It seems like a good way to practice solving problems, as well as, you would get exposure to questions and problems you have never heard about, so in some ways very good to explore the space.
Another worry would be you get pigeonholed into a specific technology, like making buffers or something like that. However I guess that is also easier to do, then also you would have more steady work.
Or another possibility is you just do both, have steady kind of boring work, then do more crazy projects.
Balance.
In the current lab I am in, we do this often for other labs in academia, but recently we've been getting more companies working with us, and they keep offering to pay us, but for some reason we can't accept this, I think maybe based on work contracts. Weird though seems like you could have a consultancy in addition to your normal job.
Maybe side project.