Your work sounds very interesting. I never enjoyed research as much as I enjoyed plant work, but engineering is a different field. When I went for my second master's degree, I did my research on a mariculture project. Our hope was to get oyster and shrimp growing with artificial seawater and then do a process optimization on their feeding. The engineering part of the work was the process optimization, but I was one of the first of my professor's students. Being the first meant that I was stuck with trying to learn to keep the oysters alive. He was an engineer who'd been studying this area for years. His wife was a marine biologist with similar interests. Both of them looked at my setup and said that everything should have been right. Unfortunately, all of my oysters died. I think that failure is part of why I've been so nervous as I tried to keep snakes.



I wish you well with what you do. The work is worthwhile, and the technical challenges sound interesting. I think I'd still rather make my living with non-living things. Living things could be a fun hobby, but I'd be too frustrated making my living with them.





Bill
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It's not how many snakes you have. It's how happy and healthy you can keep them.

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