Once again putting it out into the world that someday I would desperately like to work on a research vessel at sea. I'll take holiday time and do it as volunteer hours if a short-term opportunity presents itself.

• I can write excellent code in Python without an internet connection
• I can do basic electronics and soldering
• I have college-level chem and biochem and PhD-level structural biology
• many years ago I was on a sailing team, so I can tie knots and hike and stuff if relevant
• also fine with manual labor and repetitive tasks. I just want to be on the water.

If there's a longer-term thing worth pursuing that I'd need specific qualifications for, I'd be interested to know about it so I can slowly accumulate said qualifications. (I'm not leaving my job-job in the next three or four years, but eventually I will be looking for a career-shaped thing again once this ends.)

Edit to clarify: for the foreseeable future, only willing to work with US-based institutions if I don't have to enter the US at any point.