Patience "I want some now!!!"

Question

Ever find you need more patience?

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Answer 1

While this has become less of an issue for me the older I get, yes, I still sometimes find that I wish for more patience.  

Your details indicate that you're unable to complete a piece of research using your intended resource, and I have a few encouraging words for you.  Often in my career, I have found being unable to work my original plan has forced me to be more creative and exposed me to new ideas I would never have run across had I been able to run with plan 'A'.  I've also found that if I go off and do something wholly unrelated, the added incubation time allows me a fresh perspective and new insights when I return to whatever-it-was.

Looking back, doing science has been a long series of zigs and zags to get around all the obstacles that arose.  Servers down, equipment not working, funding drying up, strange coworkers, calibration standards missing, irreproducible results, but the more frustration there is along the way, the more satisfaction I feel when it all falls together in the end.