I suspect I am significantly older than you. Allow me to clue you in to the fact that as a general rule, societal progress is not dependent on whether a given individual wants that progress.

You haven't said what sort of scientist you would like to be. But regardless of what field you are interested in, it seems horribly self-centered and callous to demand that those who suffer waiting for a particular advancement of science should have to wait for you rather than accept relief years or decades earlier by letting a Manufactured Intelligence address the issue. That is the likely scenario in biology, chemistry, materials, agriculture and probably all the rest of them.

I have done strenuous physical labor and in the midst of it, I have known those that had to work twice or more as hard as I did. As long as it does not hurt his family, the guy in the 95degree sun with a shovel in his hands doing back breaking work would be happy to let a machine take over. I bet that would be true even if it was you. Your idea of work likely involves HVAC and other comforts. That is in fact the case for a minority of the people on the planet. Perhaps you should spend some time with them (us).