Working in the dirt was what I was born to do, at least according to my engrammatic aptitude test.
An artificial intelligence weighed my soul and decided it saw a future soil scientist. I do have to grudgingly admit I'm good at my day job, but my real passion is coding convincingly randomized events and reactive social intelligence simulations.
So that's what I'm tinkering with when I'm not feeding soil probe samples into a chromatograph.
I know, I know-my work to confirm nutrient transport and healthy geochemical cycling by microbial soil communities is an important part of maintaining this vital biological archive of ours.
The fate of humanity depends on our success, bla bla bla.
It's just that I envy having the kind of freedom people seemed to have in the past to follow their dreams, at least according to our library of historical media.