Research is an abstract, conceptual and technical undertaking which requires vast amount of human and material resources with deferred rewards and gratification. This is true, for you need a substantial amount of intellectual energy, a high level of communication skills, high degree of involvement and commitment and high degree of resourcefulness for funds, materials and othe assistance. The dedicated researcher is devoted to his task, often working without regard to hours and without expectancy of immediate material rewards, pursuing research at great personal sacrifice. Sometimes, you have to brave the ridicule of society when generating revolutionary and innovative ideas that are envisioned to change existing states of working, teaching, admistration, and institutions.
But research has rewards more than the monetary gains you will receive for the expended efforts. The various activities could lead t advencement in career, recognition by peers and authorities, travel, and /or sense of pesonal achievement. Many are also actuated by the desire to see order where at first, there was only confusion.
"Reward comes in the form of the aesthetic experience to discover the recurrent rhythms of nature, to feel the joy of genuine progress through the creation of something new, and self-fulfillment for leaving one's legacy to the vast reservoir of knowledge on Earth". (Good and Scates.1972,p.10)
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