Useless interests?

>>18167151
if you really are interested in this shit then go to school for it. you can find a job in academia

>>18167203

I could go to school for it but that would just lead to joblessness. No one would be looking for someone who knows about rocks..

>>18167222
youre wrong. my guess is that you arent actually interested in the subject enough to rigorously study it for 5-6 years. its just a passing interest for you that youll forget in a few months, like all your other interests

>>18167280
Possibly, then what are my other options? Why is it that my interests fade so quickly?

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>>18167151
Anon, you're a fucking retard, has someone ever told you this?

You're Chemistry material (no pun) my man, it's not useless to know this kind of things.
Instead, try to read more and more about it, if you were good with Chemistry at your high school, you should be able to get into university Chemistry and use that "useless" knowledge to use into some private labs or do some great research.
Who knows if you could be the man that gave humanity the ability to travel faster in space with some new chemical composition you made, Anon!

Please don't ever think of losing this great interest that you have in you, so read the /sci/'s wiki about Chemistry if you're interested, or get into college to get a degree if it's better for you, but you can still can be self taught.

>https://sites.google.com/site/scienceandmathguide/subjects/chemistry

Nothing is useless if you really love it, Anon.
Pic related as well.

Have a good night.

>>18167670
this guy has a point.

I don't know where you are in life, but you have a few options.

If you feel like going the academic route, you could study chemistry, geochemistry, materials science, something like that. If you do, it might be worth looking into community college and transferring your credits to a legit institution as much as possible. Also, if you know a lot about rocks going in, you could probably test out of classes and finish early, paying less.

Another option might be finding some job that involves rocks. One of my roommates (studying chemistry, probably going to end up as a geochemist or some shit) had a summer job doing something along the lines of sediment analysis. Depending on where you live there are also a decent number of manual labor sort of jobs working with rocks (please don't be a coal miner though), and knowing a lot about the rocks you are dealing with could conceivably help you work your way up the ranks.

Waaaayyy out there, but since you mention an interest on some astro stuff, a buddy of min who is in business keeps memeing me trying to get me to go into asteroid mining.

Most importantly, I bet knowing shit about rocks would totally get some girls to be into you. It's better than the pacman line in scott pilgrim.