Hi all, long term lurkers here. I was hoping to get some insight from other comp chemists.
I did comp chem for about 4 years in an academic research lab and I really loved it. However, I am locked into a different career path and have been in a different grad program for the past year. I feel there is a great void in my life--I really miss computation.
Since the passion is still within me, I figure that I might be able to do this on the side for fun. I am wondering if anyone here does hobby comp? I would like to start a project. The obvious first step is acquiring software and perhaps access to a HPC clusters. Beyond that point, I don't really know where to begin. My previous projects were handed to me or born out of my labs research area, so this isn't obvious to me.
I would greatly appreciate if anyone would be so kind as to share their thoughts or experience on this topic. Thank you in advance.