I don’t know what I’m doing. 3 reasons why I keep doing it
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- Опубликовано: 28 июн 2024
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While I try to navigate this new marine biology/science communication career path I'm carving for myself, I occasionally have doubts about what I am doing and the choices I make. I think this is just part of trying something new, but there are things with which without I would probably have already changed course. In this video I discuss some of the things that keep me going.
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I feel a sort of comraderie with you. I´m 32, I work with small children and have 2 of my own like I always wanted. It´s emotionally draining sometimes, even though I love it.
And still I don´t know what I´m doing. And I struggle with it. Because you feel like you´re supposed to know what to do at our age, and especially as a parent.
All I can say is, to me, your life looks like so much fun. Your way looks so different and unique from my perspective, even if lots of people probably live like you do.
Your life, your work, what you do and say, are interesting and refreshing to me when I watch your videos.
They help my personal growth by helping me tap into a very different part of my brain, and still, through videos like this, you´re so relatable.
So yeah. From this 32 year plain old mom, thank you so much for what you do. You are part of what keeps me going. Thanks Maria.
Thank you so much for this lovely and kind comment. I really admire people who work with children, it's such an important job. I really admire you. I'm happy my videos can be a small window into another different life. I always find it motivating to see what other people do and how they go through life. So thank you so much for this comment. It made my day
I question myself all the time Maria, often I have no idea where my next paycheck is coming from, or how much it’s going to be - which is hard! Especially when most of my friends have settled into jobs where they are comfortably paid and are heading in a clear direction. But In those times of doubt, it’s my love for the study species that keeps me going! 🦈
@sea&me 80% of over 40s still have no clue what they doing in life or where to go... so do not feel alone - today a lot of over 50s just want to have fun
Yup. I'm in the over 40 category, and it's fun as hell.
Thank you! I also suspect it's a forever feeling and just part of living :)
No matter what, you should be proud that you followed your dream you had as a kid. Not many can say they became what they wanted to become! My dream of becoming a secret agent didn't work out unfortunately...or did it...😉
Aw thank you so much! haha and it's never too late to follow your dreams 😅 or did you actually follow them? 🤫
"oh there's a squirrel!"
😂 That was me the entire shoot. I left out a lot of "oooh a bird!"
@@Seamemaria I want a 10-min long compilation of that :) you are adorable
Hi Maria! I really enjoyed watching this video and I also deal sometimes with that question of why I want to do what I dream of doing which is Marine Biology and I also have many answers to that question but one of my answer is the same as yours, loving the ocean and wanting to work alongside our sea animals that live in it and not only that but just the urge to research and learn about our oceans. I know you are a Marine Biologist yourself and seeing you have a passion in the deep sea and everything that involves the ocean is fair game for you and that is what I want to get to when I reach my goal. right now I've been doing my basic courses for community college and trying to have the credits I need to graduate and transfer to a university. watching what you do gives me motivation and inspiration to keep going and never stop being the best at what you do. I'm 24 years old and single and still live with my parents which I am grateful for and they also push me to look for any volunteer work involving sea turtles which are the animals I want to research and study on. right now I have been working full time in a nature made plant and trying to save as much as I can for college and once I am able to be involved in that field of work I'm planning on leaving and working alongside the ocean. For me as a human being I think you are doing amazing at what you do. I sure hope once I make it to my dream as a marine biologist that maybe we'll cross paths throughout our line of work. So keep doing what you're doing, I am one of your top supporters and as a future fellow marine biologist I hope you stay being an amazing human being. as they say in the movie UP "adventure is out there!"
I really appreciate this kind of philosophizing and i think about this stuff a lot.
For me it was a religious motivation to help others and then in college I became non-religious and I decided that loving people was enough reason to want to make the world better.
Keep it up. You're doing great and inspiring many on your journey.
It's natural to question all what you do. These thoughts come especially while spring ist starting off. You look out to the nature, see how perfect it is and see how not so perfect you are in yourself, and you question all. I know these thoughts very good, and me I find not so many things I have done right. But you have achieved a lot allready. Look how many people write here, that they stayed after your subnautica series, just because you ispired them to be curious about marine biology specially and about science generally. I think you have achieved a lot. Keep going, this way is not over for you. 😃
Thank you so much for the kind comment 🥰
This video really resonates with me... I feel very lost in what I should chose as a career~ I am not doing the best in college, and everything feels stagnant. But taking it day by day and is the key. Thank you so much for the tips and motivation. It really helps.
Sorry to hear that. I think many of us struggle with motivation. Taking it day by day is definitely the best one can do. But also don't be afraid of change of need be. Nothing is set in stone 🙂 Good luck!
That was a great video, very thoughtful and thought provoking. Sometimes we need to stop and take stock of all we have already.
Speaking of, I didn't know you had a second channel! That looks interesting.
You can do it... whatever it is that you do.
Being honest, sometimes I run out of motivation, because of everyday routine. As a first yeat stident I don't see any science in what I do. That demoralises me so much. But I remember what I who to become. And also whatching your videos about research helps me to move on, despite it is extremely differently directied
I like hearing stories of people that even at a very early age have decided what they want to become once they hit the school system. I have met a few young women during my construction work as well that led large building projects because they knew what they wanted to become before starting school, so they already had the trajectory planned out. Most kids go into the education system and end up flailing and wasting years trying to figure it out. While these young women are collecting 60/70k+ Euro every year most of their age group are still struggling and accumulating debt. If one wants to fix society in a big way, finding a way to get young people conscious of what they actually want to become before starting school would go a long way.
Yeah I'm definitely one of the lucky ones in that regard, but I think it might be tricky to decide what you want to be when you're a kid because people can change so much growing up and even later in adulthood. Unless there is a subject people are really forever passionate about, it could be tough. But I do wish people could find it
Keep up the good work! as always there are ups and downs but in the end you know what matters the most.
I'm glad to be part of your awesome community and if you are gonna need help don't be afraid to ask, you are doing great!
Mam Thank you !!!! Soooooo much 🤗 for making contents on marine biology it's help us a lots.
Awesome followup to your last video! 👏👏👏 I've never felt so understood, and so inspired!
What keeps me going? I seek out people who've made a difference. Small groups or individuals who changed the world in some way, even a small way.
Before the internet, I had to do it all internally, positive self-talk over and over until I believed myself. Now it's easier to find good news about people making a difference, although I do still have to go looking for it. (Bad news and sensationalism is just overwhelming online.)
Thanks for being the bright spot in my day today!! 💖💖
Really needed this, my masters dissertation on marine bio course is due in a month and this helped out things in perspective ❤
uh good luck!
I really love hermit crabs and find their use of snail shells really interesting. Can you do a video on how this works and how this evolved?
Definitely an interesting topic, at least for a short video.
@@Seamemaria yay
Hello, I think that one of the things that keeps me going, especially when I contemplate the gigantic mountains of destructions humans are responsible of, and I feel so small, like why should I try to do something about it, since the mess is so big and I'm so small?.... Well, I think that one of the things that keeps me going is pride! I can't just let things down, let me down, give up, for I would feel so ashamed of myself I wouldn't be able to look at myself in the mirror. Then there's faith, sort of a blind faith that it's worth it, very much worth it, at least trying. Then I guess there's also what some call love, though it's often given a phoney definition. I just care, so to speak, so I go on.
Keep doing it.
My brain turned into pessimistic-nihilist, so i'm unable to understand anything anymore, but glad to see other people doesn't falls like me in this life.
P.S. you're looking beautiful and also brings me some energy of joy, seeing your smiling face :)
As a person who thearted any chanceof having a career at an appropriate age (I am 33) and living wit my mom again with no job, I am thinking these thoughts so often but in a more urgent manner.
When i was a kindergartner i started wanting to be a marine biologist.
I did nothing with my life.
Im scared of a life without valor, now.
Just a normal thing that I want to figure out.
I had an idea of what i wanted to do. I went in one direction with my goals as clear as i could see them, now 30 years later i do what i want and are good to do, my goals are different but the same and the my work today, i could not have imagined when i started out.
My ramblings is, you find your way.
That's so great 🥰! I think that goals are always changing, and life is really about learning to enjoy the uncertainty that comes with it.
As a 38yo guy, I'd say the things I percived as certainty of adulthood is nothing more than the way someone trapped in the repetative industrialised slog for survival looked like to the blissfully unaware perspective of our younger selves...😢
I agree. Many times people view certainty and security only from a financial perspective, and while that might be inportant, that's definitely not what will give you inner certainty I think.
@@Seamemaria indeed, my own calm, I find in the friends and found family around me as well as the joy of creativity, including joy I find in watching other people bring their creative dreams to life and the process of getting there and exploring how each of us respectively defines 'there'. Finding and defining our respective interests and how they change over time is very much a part of the process too. You and your journey are one of those external sources of joy and hope for me. ❤
(Having grown up on an island and worked in the very wet microbiology of waste water treatment for five years as my first job, I can also relate to the marine biology aspect of your work) 😉
Are you recording these all by yourself?
Because i always think: "For these 'walking scenes' does she place the camera some where, runs back and then 'naturally' walks in Front of the cam only to Run back to get the cam?" I would be suuuuuper self-conscious about this xD
That is exactly what I do 😂😂
@@Seamemaria Amazing xD
When in doubt I just think of Robin Williams.
You know, this is a daily thing for me, almost. Asking myself what I'm doing, .... why I am doing it. Why am I not just stopping whatever it is that I do, and turn around, and do something different. But it would mean starting over from scratch, and I'm just ... either too lazy or too invested. I'm getting old, and older, and past the point where I think I could just change my entire life and lifestyle. So, I'm trying to come to terms with the idea that I can make changes, yes, but I cannot follow radically new ideas anymore. My life is okay. But I'll be blunt and honest ... I wish there was more to it. I wish I lived in a world where it was easier for a single person to make a difference. But with minimum wage, and an aging body, I am more and more tangled up in a normalcy that will fiddle out eventually, rather than have a crowning moment. I don't like that. I wish my life had meaning beyond being a good friend for my friends, and being a good person. Any greater accomplishment is virtually unreachable to me now. I cannot explore anything unknown. Learn about things somebody else hasn't. If I never existed, the world wouldn't be any different. It sounds depressing, and maybe to some degree it is. But I'm coming to grips with it. I'm making the best of it.
The world is set up to keep low-income people that way. It actively suppresses anyone who tries to better their life/career. Know that's what you're up against, and don't blame yourself!
This world is also still very much ageist. I know I've gone on job interviews where I lost out to someone with no gray in their hair, even though I was more qualified.
Just know that you're not alone, and you can still make a difference. Stop eating meat, reduce your plastic consumption, cleanup a local park or beach... You'll feel wonderful, and maybe make new friends too.
Wishing you peace and love, and that you find purpose in your existence. You may never know how much you've already changed someone's life for the better. ☮❤
You didnt cover sea cucumbers and the pearl fish yet. They have a symbiotic relationship where the fish gains protection and the sea cucumber has a fish in its butt.
Same lol
🙂👍🧡 #algokommi
you're pretty :)