Nuclear research
I am a rising junior in high school. I am reaching that part in my life where I got to start deciding on what to do with my life.
I am thinking about going into sciences and going into nuclear research. I am in my school research class (that is basically a 3 year program that you pick a topic and research (it’s a college class) and have managed to basically make it grad work level). I have been doing MSFR for it and I love it which is why I am thinking about doing it for a career. I am already looking at getting a chem engineering degree for my ungrad.
But my biggest fear with going into research is how much it’s not actually about research and more about farming papers and how it’s hyper competitive. But all of this knowledge has came from people in other fields like Med and Bio. I don’t know if it’s also like this in the nuclear world and I don’t want to spend 4-6 years of my life trying to find out if it’s like that. So if you do work in the research field in nuclear and if you know it’s like this or and advice you would like to give. I would greatly appreciate it.