On Writing a Paper

This post is supposed to be about my experience writing my paper. Well, I didn't like writing it if for no other reason than the information I was looking for does not exist, at least in the specifics or generalities I was looking for. My paper was a review of sorts regarding techniques used to grow prize winning giant pumpkins. I really wanted peer-reviewed material but it was not to be had. Sure there are plenty of papers about various aspects of pumpkins being produced for oil from the seeds or papers about pumpkins for food. I only found one that related to giant pumpkins and it was basically a history of what's been done and a call for people to do some research into the various factors that make these squash outrageously huge. Now if I were more of an academic sort and would be pursuing an advanced degree, this would be something I would like to look into further. As I am just wanting to finish school and contemplating a major career change (from meat manager to electrician) I'm pretty sure I won't be doing research any time soon, at least in a formal setting.