Once again putting it out into the world that someday I would desperately like to work on a research vessel at sea. I'll take holiday time and do it as volunteer hours if a short-term opportunity presents itself.

• I can write excellent code in Python without an internet connection
• I can do basic electronics and soldering
• I have college-level chem and biochem and PhD-level structural biology
• many years ago I was on a sailing team, so I can tie knots and hike and stuff if relevant
• also fine with manual labor and repetitive tasks. I just want to be on the water.

If there's a longer-term thing worth pursuing that I'd need specific qualifications for, I'd be interested to know about it so I can slowly accumulate said qualifications. (I'm not leaving my job-job in the next three or four years, but eventually I will be looking for a career-shaped thing again once this ends.)

Edit to clarify: for the foreseeable future, only willing to work with US-based institutions if I don't have to enter the US at any point.

The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks

It's a race against time (and magnetic decay) to preserve decades of cultural history stored on obsolete hardware.

by Mack DeGeurin

https://www.popsci.com/technology/floppy-disk-archivist-project/?utm_source=nautilus.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=where-to-see-the-total-lunar-eclipse&_bhlid=52ff749846d631cfc15924ca032510c3a9e130dd

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