I always loved nature, horses, and people. Mostly in that order. My love for life created curiosity. I wanted to know more. My thirst for knowledge is unending.
I first trained to care for people so I could make a living. After I was able to make a living I was able to follow my thirst and it lead me eventually to a university education mostly pursued while I was making a living.
My education satiated my curiosity and I made great friends. I and my friends are valued for the help we bring to understand nature, record it, and protect it. It is an important vocation that required a university education. Sometimes a scientist is given one chance to get it right and save a species. To that end all knowledge, years and a decade or more, comes into play at that critical moment.
I don’t have one friend that is even a millionaire. Published with work that is acclaimed internationally, but, the money is more about sustainability of a profession than being wealthy.
We do great and important work and to us that is everything. It is enough.
There are many ways that life works out for Americans. There are inventors that create and grow in wealth because they create. Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg are inventors. Bill Gates is another. There are also others involved with their inventions, but, they are not as well known so they aren’t part of this dialogue.
There have been a lot of inventors in the USA and they profited from what they created. Inventors don’t have to worry about making a living or being satisfied with life because there is always the next invention. They are self contained in their talent. There is a university education that may or may not be finished, but to the inventor there is always tomorrow. No desperation. No corruption. Just pure application of “what works.”
continued in the next entry…
