[bionet.jobs] Career change

hyman@sundae2.DAB.GE.COM (05/27/89)

      Open letter to anyone desiring to help me in my quest for a
      new career,

	I have both a B.S.E.E. and a M.S.E.E (Electronic Engineering)
     and have worked as an R&D engineer in the field of real-time
     visual systems for flight simulators, in hardware design,
     software development, algorithm development, and system
     integration areas for the past twenty years. However, I strongly
     desire a career change to an area of greater personal interest,
     and am thus seeking contacts and ideas relative to this end.

	     I am very interested in applying my technical problem
     solving capabilities towards aiding humanity in its quest for a
     better life in a better world, a world in which people have
     learned the methodologies for developing and maintaining a strong
     mutual respect for all life and the preservation of our
     environment. In order to attain this end, I believe that the real
     problems need to be identified and attacked, rather than only the
     symptoms, as seem to be the case with modern day approaches.  For
     example, problems such as drug abuse wouldn't exist if the demand
     for drugs was not present. The solution then, is not to try to
     legislate morality by focusing most of the effort on making drugs
     illegal, but to identify and treat the causes of drug dependancy
     in the first place. To this end, it appears to me that one of the
     major underlying causes of our problems is our inability to
     understand and deal with our basic emotional/behavioral
     mechanisms. Each individual's state of mind must become a topic of
     paramount importance and universal concern.  Healthy minds help
     make for healthy bodies and a healthy world.  I am most anxious to
     focus my problem solving abilities and efforts to this most noble
     research cause, of understanding the mechanisms operating within
     our thick human skulls, and to develop techniques for their
     quantification, and correction of deficiencies.

	      Certainly, some means must exist for effeciently and
      accurately identifying, quantifying, and modifying our emotional
      reactions to life, so that all humans can firstly experience a
      full range of emotions and subsequently deal with them in a
      healthy manner. The intent of this approach is not to remove or
      manipulate individualism, but to provide the means for insuring
      that each individual is given the choice of being able to
      percieve life to the fullest extent of their naturally given
      potentials and to have available to then the tools to deal with
      them in turn.  One possible avenue of approach could be utilizing
      music as a tool for aiding in the characterization and
      stimulation of human emotions. To this end, I would more than
      welcome any suggestions as to how and where I might become
      involved in research relating to the generation, perception,
      physiological, and psychological effects of music, or any other
      medium, with the underlying motivation being to develop an
      understanding and treatment methodology for our
      emotional/behavioral system.


				Thanks for your time,
				Mark Hyman (hyman@sunny.DAB.GE.COM)

--
X Mark L. Hyman             X   General Electric Co.            X
X 106 Horseshoe Trail       X   P.O Box 2500 Daytona Beach, Fl. X
X Ormond Beach Fl. 32074    X   ZIP:32015   Phone:904-239-2645  X
X 904-673-4285              X   hyman@sunny.DAB.GE.COM        X