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The title is misleading - Darwin was pretty much always 'on the job', as we can see from his notes and correspondence.

In his early life he was a neglectful student, an underachiever. He was a late bloomer.

As a poet I must contend that no flower blooms late for its own rhythm. They're all right on time.

Though I admit I'm mused, this is Hacker News, so you're gonna have to specify time signature otherwise this is just conjecture.

True - maybe he needed something to motivate himself, and he certainly found that!