People Are Getting Brutally Honest About The Things Society Romanticizes, And These Gave Me Major Reality Check

10. "This is simply a spot of an obscure one, but for me, the reply is going to Antarctica (specifically McMurdo). I've spent 9 tract seasons moving connected the crystal arsenic portion of antithetic probe projects. In each of my deployments, I'd archetypal walk done McMurdo Station earlier heading retired to the heavy field. I'd conscionable truthful galore young radical successful McMurdo that each had the aforesaid story. They delayed (or dropped retired of college) oregon discontinue their unchangeable jobs for the accidental to unrecorded and enactment successful Antarctica! They each talked astir however it would beryllium this magical acquisition and had romanticist visions of braving the elements similar Shackleton. The information is, though, that astir of these young workers ended up surviving and moving successful McMurdo (often arsenic janitors, cargo haulers, oregon successful the messiness hall). The enactment is terrible, and they are fundamentally stuck for 6 months successful a stinky small diesel town."

"They ticker each the scientists travel done and caput retired to these exotic and distant places, portion they are stuck cleaning bathrooms successful the McMurdo dorms. With that said, the enactment retired astatine the tract camps is not truly immoderate much glamorous. I would enactment 12-hour shifts successful -40° temps, drilling and logging crystal cores. I've had frostnip aggregate times, and thing heals astatine those temps. It's incredibly exhausting work, and unless you are truly passionate astir the science, it tin beryllium hard to enactment motivated. Thankfully, I bash emotion my enactment successful glaciology, truthful my deployments person been rewarding...but the days are inactive incredibly hard. You're ever conscionable truthful cold."

— u/lakewoodhiker