Pigeonholed

Some people, see education as now, a system for merely fitting out children to be servile adults. Trained in packs to serve either in the corporation or the "bureaucracy".
While most are condemned to this life of servility some slip through the net;- they are some of the lucky few. Against the odds, they form a somewhat more visionary compromise for themselves; -they are the self-employed-the artist, the entrepreneurs, the so called wanderers in life.

Personally I think the guy should take a "back seat" and become the scientist.