For the last week or so, I've considered a move to Boston. I've spent my whole life on the West Coast and have never been to Boston in my life. I am aware that I am "in for a surprise" if I decide to move to Boston in the middle of December.
I think I crave adventure, and this is sort of a "settling the frontier" kind of situation for me. I am also very intense and am seeking to start an intense project in collaboration with some scientists out in Boston. If I don't have an intense Manhattan Project to start, then I don't feel fulfilled for some reason.
I think the considerations, of course, are that I will be starting fresh and have to make friends from scratch. That's obviously a "good for you" type of thing. I do think Nicholas Nassim Taleb's concept of Antifragility is pretty useful to life, and my hope is that a hard move will stimulate my friendship life, whereas in my current place things have gotten a bit stagnant and settled in their ways. Namely, I don't have any friends who want to collaborate with me on an intense Manhattan Project.
I also just graduated and realized that all of these post-grad people spend all their time working! For some reason I thought you're supposed to have more free time once you finish college! And if these people are so into doing their jobs all the time, then maybe I should make it a point to allocate myself to the most intense, exhilarating type of work that I envision, instead of thinking that some okay dayjob is a worthwhile trade for "beers after work." Because nobody's getting beers after work around here.
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