Any STEMlords here? Do you find it hard to read literature after working all day?

Any STEMlords here? Do you find it hard to read literature after working all day?
After a day of work my head is fried and my eyes are already tired of seeing lines of text (I am a programmer).
I am thinking of listening to audiobooks instead.

i deal in epistemological neuroscience, which is just identifying neural substrates of thought, memory, and belief. i love to read literature and philosophy in my spare time, but i also love to read journals and collections of scientific essays.

my secret? lots of amphetamines

Just use some willpower you bitch. Your complaint doesn't even occur to some people. Did you know that?

I am a genetics grad student, and before that I worked in industry. I find that audiobooks are very good when doing time-consuming or repetitive tasks, which are pretty common in bench science. I also do programming as part of my duties for my principal investigator, though, and I can't really listen to an audiobook and do that at the same time so I'm not sure that helps. You could always listen to audiobooks while dirving/walking or working out, though.

I read/study before work. Why waste my highest potential and greatest energy slaving for some corporation I hate?

This is the simplest and the most effective solution.

>Programmer

How do you consider yourself a STEMLORD though ?

If you are trained specialist in a STEM subject, I think it's highly unlikely that you will have cultivated a taste for high art and literature. Just keep wage slaving until you die since that is the path you chose for yourself and it seems like it's already too late to turn back.

What if I'm stuck floundering between the two getting sub-par engineering grades while spending my time reading lit/phil for fun instead of commiting to a profession or networking

More like a XXI century factory worker

I'm afraid this will happen to me, too.

You're alright friendo; The fact that you don't put much effort into your soulless education is a sign that you are destined for a more interesting life. However, remember the Chinese proverb, interesting does not mean happiness or even success. The people who I really despise are people like OP who want to put a hand in both pots and don't have the reach to touch the bottom of either one.

Tricked my parents saying that I am majoring in maths to then branch out into CS or finance. Planning to either get into grad school here if I like it or change to philosophy. Worst case scenario I'll be a teacher and read books while my students solve equations.

>I am thinking of listening to audiobooks instead
Nothing wrong with that. I do it all the time while cooking, driving, etc.

I have a bachelors in Pure Mathematics, which is the M in STEM.
>just b urself xD
yeah, audiobooks would be much better than music/podcasts during commute.

fuck stem

You're a grown up now you don't have to trick your parents

I don’t understand how this comment is constructive, or encourages the reader to think more deeply about anything. It appears to me that this comment’s only purpose is to display the cleverness of the author. Unfortunately, despite the collective efforts of the commentariate, we do get infiltration from those who are apparently determined to give the impression that they are incapable of parsing an entire piece of writing and reading it as a whole.
As has been previously noted (regular readers will be aware) we (that’s the “Royal we” — fellow commenters, occasional contributors such as myself and the moderator team) are engaged in an ongoing attempt to keep the quality of comments at its former impeccably high standard. Sadly, this is more of an effort than it should be.
And as a writer, it is rather tiresome having to try to explain to the occasional numpty who happens across a post basic reading comprehension skills, how to follow an argument when it is constructed long-form and the ability to master data interpretation.
And I’ve just caught up on all the subsequent comments on this page. All the other commenters have managed to make coherent and intelligible contributions that furthered my understanding or gave me something to think about, because they took the trouble to type more than a single sentence. I don’t agree with everything that’s been said in other comments. Quite the opposite in a couple of cases. But at least I understand what was expressed and the intention behind it.

Audiobooks are great! Go for it!

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fucking stemautists.

Best solution itt

I hate my STEM career, and use literature to escape from the drudgery.

Have you considered going to the optician? A headache and tired eyes may be the cause of bad vision. Because of bad vision you need to focus extra hard which is tiring for your brain and eyes.

Also, stay hydrated.

>It's so hard sitting in a climate controlled office all day I'm so exhausted after work

t. Someone who hasn't had to spend 40+ hours per week sitting in front of a computer in a tiny cubicle

Professional engineer here. Once you graduate and get your first job your grades mean nothing. You don't need to ace it. When you start working as an engineer you get too tired to read books after work so you're fucked either way lad

I imagine this is the best advice. Sounds pretty cool to wake up at 5am and spend a few hours doing whatever you want to do before work. You still get an hour or two to chill out when you get home (chilling out is good for productivity in the long run).

If you live in a big city the early morning is the only time you can have any peace and quiet as well.

Just accept it now, once you realize how pointless and unfulfilling STEM is you can never go back.

Happened to me, I switched to maths because I can find some interest in the pure / theoretic side, but I don't have a clue what I'm going to do once I graduate. Probably try to land some shitty remote programming gig then cloister myself up in the countryside. I would unironically rather starve than slave away in soulless office building in some city optimizing distribution routes or some shit for a multinational for the next thirty years.

I am a post doc and always try to read for a bit pleasure before going to bed.

I spend all day reading, writing, and doing lab work. I love my work but I also love to read; I don't see any conflict between the two. My eyes never get "tired" either, I've never experienced this before.

I used to listen to audiobooks a lot when I had to do very tedious, somewhat mindless work for my PhD thesis.

I'm a programmer who gets burned out too. For me the answer is waking up earlier and reading/writing in the morning (4am-ish) and going to bed earlier.

I'm doing physics at a stem school notorious for stressing out its students to the point of suicide and I find time to read every day. I get alright grades and don't go to class sometimes but it's survivable. A lot of the muh super hard stem meme is just retarded engineers who think spending finals week taking adderall and studying for five days with no sleep eating nothing but taco bell is necessary, or cs kids willing to suck cock just to hear someone utter the word startup.
Deep down all I want is to get my doctorate and then live a comfy life getting paid shit to do research and reading and writing in my free time. When it's time for me to retire I'll be a homeless man whose esoteric ramblings about relativity and gnosticism are indistinguishable from schizophrenia.

>i deal in epistemological neuroscience

How much substantial shit has this subfield actually pulled off? How do you get into it? I really want to know because I legitimately believe that I've come up with a method of identifying and isolating the mental structures that specifically enable humans to perceive art and experience aesthetic phenomena and want to find more people who are interested and could realistically help with this.

I'm a janitor and maintenance man at a medical facility. Never went to college.

I spend most of my days reading.

When I get home, I usually read some more.

Hate to break it to you, but STEM is dead and women killed it.

>oh no, the SJW boogeywomen halted all of humanity's scientific research by making mean tweets
hang yourself you fucking /pol/ nigger.

>he thinks STEM is the same as "humanity's scientific research"

Web developer here. I wake up around 5 or 6 most mornings and read/write until I have to leave for work. I've got a half hour commute, and I don't eat breakfast, so that gives me a solid 3-4 hours each day.

Ben Franklin had it all figured out my guy.

>Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics
read the first word you illiterate mongoloid ape

maybe lower levels of tech but nothing more

please educate yourself. STEM has nothing to do with scientific progress, and hasn't since at least 1948. STEM is now about excel spreadsheets, carefully following the instructions you were given, and competing with H-1Bs from the Philippines.

God shut up