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Yet you can earn $100,000 for discovering the largest prime number (but anyone you personally find has to be larger than 13 million digits so good luck, it will take a while.)

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/09/27/prim ... index.html

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I would take up something like this if it actually served a purpose, other than me making a hudread grand.

Prime numbers are very useful for randomization and encryption.

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Bulls@#! My obsession for cartooning has made me one of the most successful cartoonists in my college newspaper. Don't let anybody tell you what to show interest in and what not to.

If they paid, they wouldn't be useless.

Well, prime numbers aren't any more useless than some of the things NTs spend their time on. They don't call sports, fashion, and gossip magazines "useless", and those things have hardly any job-related applications; yet NTs spend plenty of time on them.

So you're interested in prime numbers... how is that different than being interested in football, except that you're not making a fool of yourself yelling at a TV screen?

They're right. As a little kid, I only made about $400-$500 for my first interest(I charged TOKEN amounts from $1 to about $15 for little jobs, and never really pushed it). For my second interest, I only got about $1,545,000. I COULD have made more if I were more social, greedy, or aggresive. BTW for comparison purposes. The average person would have made less than $738,000

I got an awesome job in college because of one of my interests. During my sophomore year I got obsessed with video editing, and spent all my time in the school media lab. The student workers saw me there all the time, so they would suggest that I apply for a job. So I did, and I was hired. It was an awesome, fun job that paid well. I had learned to use well a video editing program with a rather steep learning curve that most student workers in the lab didn't know well, and I got hired basically because of my knowledge of that program (non-dining hall jobs are usually very difficult to get on campus). It was my level of obsessiveness that allowed me to learn a relatively complex program from the ground up in a very short period of time (I hadn't known anything about video-editing prior to this obsession).

I prefer 'deep interest' to 'obsession', to be honest. My deep interest in electronics systems- audio, radio, and now computers has paid well for me. While I might never get rich (too solitary and not people-oriented), I will always have something to do, because there is always a haywire system somewhere that needs to be fixed.

Have skills, will travel. It's a good life.

My current 'deep interest' is website design. This ought to be fun- it's software instead of hardware.

I do well at my library job because of the skills I possess. I am fortunate to have found that job.

ditto; they mention it in that link. ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWER!



well arguably there's the social science/psychology studies that would be interesting. That and being a historian.

People aways said my obession with meerkats and animals would get me nowhere. Note, I was obsessed with meerkats before Meerkat Manor came out. I wonder what they will say when I become a famous veternarian and discover so many important things about animals that no one knew before.

Even obsessions that are totally worthless money-wise can help you to relax and have fun--allowing you to do better at your job and indirectly make more money. Just like an NT might watch a sports game to relax, and do better at his job...

Hmm. I guess what I said wasn't as funny as I thought it was.

I should stick to being unintentionally funny.

I know a guy from this site, who is obsessive about wanting to know from me, why I say that we have nothing in common. I never tell him, so he would beg in a different way. I finally told to "STOP EMAILING ME" and he did. Would you say that this is a case in which obsession didn't pay?

I'd have to agree with that. A couple personal examples would be me selling one of my warcraft accounts for $400 (had 2 toons in t6 and all that good stuff, just was too close to wrath), and my bass/guitar playing which has landed me a couple gigs here and there, as well as tip money from playing guitar on the streets and at the summer markets.