It's easy to feel lost. I've been feeling that lately. I don't know what is right for me sometimes. I don't know what I'm doing when it comes to e-commerce. I tried coaching but decided I was uncomfortable asking for large sums of money and doing non-stop DMs to drum up business. Coaching or e-commerce....what was right for me? Or should I try to go back into the industry?
I do have a potential opportunity next year to go back into industry. I'd say yes to it. I could use the income. I'd be working with my old friends (a few anyway), whom I care about very much. In this case, I'd be back in the lab being a jack of all trades. I could see myself developing MSD ELISAs, doing Octet and managing the protein needs for a small company. It's not a bad gig. Chances are high that they'd need me next year. They've been trying to not hire a protein person, so they can stay lean, but as time goes on, I know they'll have to at some point. So that's one thing. I could do that. Its comfortable. It's safe. When it comes to protein science, I am definitely confident.
When it comes to e-commerce, I often feel like I have no f-cking idea. I've got the store built, but I get only about 35 hits per day. I learned I have to install certain apps in order for Google to find me. It still isn't finding me very well. I tried to run a Google ads campaign but it didn't work because I did not activate Google ads in my app. Lesson learned. Buying some Google ads can help Google to map my store and it will become easier for people to find it. The other marketing I need to get into is through Pinterest. Chat GPT insists that this is the way to go that is ad free. He says it starts slow at first, but once it grows, it takes off fast. I can get 500 to 1000 hits per day. Getting 1000 hits is my goal.
Today, I had the inspiration to create science shirts, not just about the humor of lab work but about science activism. It really hit me today that I'm tired of seeing science under attack when it does so much good in the world.
Its kind of crazy how many people out there that think tens of thousands of us are in on a conspiracy to harm people through vaccines. The truth is that the people who spread this misinformation are the ones harming people. I had one woman try to tell me that covid spike protein never leaves the body post vaccination. Obviously false. I know how vaccines work...the spike protein gets produced and then rapidly digested so that it's peptides can be displayed for the immune system. Because she believes that false information, she won't get her boosters and could fall dangerously sick at some point. Really, do we strike you (the public) as being sinister and evil? Vaccines have saved millions, if not billions, of lives across the past 60 years or so, Why would anyone believe that we scientists or public health workers would suddenly flip around to kill people?
In any case....I could talk all day about the virtues and sins of big pharma. I'm not saying big pharma is perfect. It's definitely greedy....but our system of capitalism and Wall Street are what makes it so. But most scientists genuinely do enjoy that their science helps people in the world.
So, my e-commerce store will produce some products extolling the benefits of science. I also intend to put out a shirt about how science has cured many cancers. I call these my science activism series. Because I'm tired of seeing us under attack as a community. It really truly bothers me. It doesn't anger me per se....I understand everyone has their own perspectives. I understand that people are afraid. They know something is wrong and they're receiving messages about how no one can be trusted. Sadly, they don't know those messages are coming from foreign and domestic bad actors intent on tearing apart the fabric of our society.
Once I do more on my store and start marketing it more effectively, I hope some people buy these shirts, not just to benefit me, an unemployed pharma scientist, but also to spread the word that science benefits us as a society.
Naturally, I'll still design my spiritually themed products as well. To me, science and spirituality are connected because we, as humans, are spirit beings living in the natural world. Most scientists are not yet aware of their spirit nature and it's not for me to impress anything upon them. Most love their identity as being all logic and evidence based. I'm evidenced based too. It's just that I have evidence (through my own experiences) that there's more to this world than what we can experience through our physical senses. Indeed, we have other types of senses (some call it the 6th sense). Since my kundalini awakening, I experience this physical world in an entirely different way. I know I awakened before many people, but I also know that in the coming years, millions more will awaken to their true identity. I'll be here to help them when it happens. In the meantime, I'm just trying to make a living, through e-commerce or through work....either way.
My overall message is that science is not separate from spirit. Because the physical and metaphysical connect through us. I might be the only person who sees it this way. I'm okay with that.
So...here's why I took a break from social media and posting. I overdid it with the coaching course. They wanted me to post all the time. It was about visibility and I burned out on that. It's simple. But I don't mind doing a blog. I'm giving up coaching for now...and just focusing on my store. Creating more products and doing more on Pinterest. So, lets see how far i can get.
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