Ask HN: Physicists of HN, what are you working on these days?
Just so you don't get the impression every physicist is having a fabulous time, here's me:<p>I have a bachelors in physics.  I went for a phd in biology but had to bail to work to support family, plus I can't seem to come up with original ideas.<p>I now have a job with physicist as part of the title, but what I really do is try to read bad handwriting from records from nuclear weapons plants.  It's a dull job a monkey could do but it pays the bills.  For years I worked as a computer guy for an academic department and that was fun and I'm trying to get back into it but nothing yet.  I teach math at a community college for fun too.<p>I have great kids, so all and all I'm happy about things, but I am sad the physics thing never panned out.  As an undergrad I was excited about chaos and nonlinear dynamics. Still read math texts for fun and play with Haskell.