If you had all of the time, money, and talent in the world, what would you do in the following areas (listed with examples):

Education: I write and play music as a hobby and have a love of photography. Music isn't a great way to earn a living. Even very successful musicians have challenges around earnings. In many ways, data science is as much about the creative experience as it is about science. I would spend time pursuing art and indulging in my passions. Art is an ever-learning experience and a beautiful experience.

Job or Research: I graduated from nursing school in 1985. I was inspired to pursue healthcare after completing cancer treatment in 1984, and I've had a deep interest in computers since my first computer in 1979. My current job combines healthcare and data science and is really a dream job. In addition, I want to pursue research that explores ways to improve healthcare delivery. Finally, on retirement from healthcare, I would like to help prepare a new generation of students in healthcare computer science.

Philosophical or Religious:

Travel: My wife and I would like to explore the national parks. There are many beautiful places on this continent worth exploring and photographing. John Denver found inspiration in the Rockie Mountains and wrote beautiful expressions to describe that inspiration.

Home: My wife and I came from troubled homes as children and, in my wife's case, entered the United States as a refugee after they fled the Vietcong after her father fought against the communist regime. My wife and I raise our son in a stable home but modest home. Our son will never experience the childhood we experienced, and we are forever grateful for that experience in this land.

List 10 ideas for each category

Education

1. Sit in a music writing session with John Darnielle of the Mountain goats
2. Take lessons to understand the guitar and music theory better
3. Go back in time and learn photography from Ansel Adams
4. I would love to experience the emergence of photography and learn from those founders
5. Take the Data Science program offered by MIT
6. Complete the Certified Data Management Professional fellow program
7. Finish the doctorate in computer science
8. Collaborate with healthcare professionals in the use of machine learning algorithms in the improvement in healthcare delivery
9. Learn how to build a large distributed computing system (Beowulf cluster) using low-cost electronics
10. Learn more about Python

Job and Research

1. Explore machine learning algorithms and application in health science
2. Find a solution in computer science to extend the reach of health care professionals
3. Use computer science to improve quality of life
4. Develop ways to move patient care from the hospital to the home using computer science
5. Indulge my photography hobby by exploring nature and capturing it on film
6. Research various subjects regarding data science – specifically healthcare data science
7. Explore ways to implement Data Governance and advanced data management in healthcare settings
8. Write a book about healthcare technology
9. Write a book that combines my photography and music
10. A job teaching after I retire from healthcare

Travel

1. Travel to every national park in North America
2. Go where the UFO's are hidden
3. Any place where I can photograph animals in nature
4. Go to impossible places such as CBGB's and watch Blackflag perform ( I saw them in Frankfort, Germany – Amazing)
5. Take our son to Vietnam and retrace my wife's journey out of Vietnam
6. Take our son to the places I grew up in England and Germany
7. Ski at every ski resort in America
8. Scuba dive a shipwreck off the Florida coast
9. Meet Paul McCartney anywhere!!!!
10. Drink a beer on the surface of the moon

Home

1. Add a recording studio
2. Build a photography room
3. Find some space for a giant computer
4. Anything my wife tells me to build (I'm sure it will be cute yet practical)
5. A swimming pool for our son (he loves water)
6. As a teenager, I did astrophotography – I would be great to have an observatory on the roof
7. A disco-ball in the living room – just because
8. Add several floors to make the house look like the Weasleys from Harry Potter
9. Build a room full of bookcases and music racks for a place to chill
10. Paint a giant mural of the Ramones on the largest wall in the house

Summarize Ideas

            I believe the most important trait humanity possesses is the ability to interpret and manipulate our surroundings. I have a need to express that through music and photography. Another critical and noble train of our species is the sharing of information to provide a better future. I find ways to include creativity in the work I do and the life I live, but sometimes I live vicariously through the deeds of others.