I hope to wake up one day and not feel the overwhelming need to think about technical things, or read a sci-fi novel, or punch numbers into a calculator. It's nuts, but that's the way it is. Science goes nowhere after a while. It screws you up.

Sure, you could wake up tomorrow and be satisfied with just saying "It's all God's will" but what good would that do you? When you say "Science goes nowhere after a while" I don't believe that you really mean that- it is (perhaps justified) bitterness talking...

Science and the scientific method is the most useful and powerful tool one can have in their intellectual toolbox... It doesn't matter if you are a janitor or a cosmologist.

I use the facts that I learned in my physics education VERY often at work to solve the day to day minor problems at work. But the scientific method coupled with that knowledge has allowed me to solve VERY tricky problems that involved areas of science I knew nothing about. I have had to, in the past few years, use areas of science such as hydrodynamics, Plasma physics, chemistry, and especially materials science- these are all areas that I have had no specialized training in, but with the tools that the scientific method and a little education given me I was able to learn enough and apply it to solve the problems...

In day to day life scientific knowledge and method are things I use many times a day... case in point: Right now I am watching Doug Beason on C-span talking to a group of people about his book "The E-bomb" and he is answering questions on the Air Borne Laser- I can tell when he is stating fact and when he is bullshitting on his answers to the audience's questions...

Even if you know NOTHING about a certain scientific topic, you can tell if people talking about it are spouting BS if you have a critical mind and a knowledge of the scientific method... In a day where so many important issues are scientific in nature, it is very sad that so few have the tools they need to understand the issues...

Keep educating yourself in science... It may not be your carreer, but it will pay off... science is the study of reality, and thus it is useful for every human to know.

You said you are a line worker in a factory... I spent a lot of time in my last job reading papers on fluid flow that most likely were spawned by observations of 'line workers' in the petroleum industry-

The internet may not offer you credentials, but it does offer you the knowledge- and that is what really matters in real world applications... Even if it is just explaining to a child how a rainbow happens.