'Arbitrary' and 'odd' are the words which best describe the pattern of my career. I'm perpetually baffled by the whole thing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.
I've had such an odd career.
My so-called career is a haphazard thing.
My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place.
It's an extension of what I do also as part of making my living - I go into schools and work with kids on writing, and I do assembly programs often. Each one is different because each school has different requirements.
Ambiguity is very interesting in writing; it's not very interesting in science.
My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world we've long known and the world that will become.
Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.
I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.