[QUOTE=genericbikedude] Be careful of getting a degree in order to do something important, because once you have a job that you are forced to care about, it will eat your life. And if you don't care about it and slack off, you'll (rightly) feel guilty about it.[QUOTE]


That is exactly the job I have now and why I am going back. My job eats my life--I'm not good at it. What I thought the job entailed when in school is nowhere near what it actually requires. I drag myself in that door every morning and sit and think---jeez its not ever going to get any better than this. I'll be doing this same damn thing for the rest of my life and nothung will change except maybee i'll make a little more. I'm surrounded by arrogant, pushy, superficial A-holes, around whom I cannot stand to be.

I want to go back and get a PHD precisely because the things I like doing and that I excel at--writing (internet posts excluded) and researching--make up so little of my responsibilities. So being able to read the types of books I read anyway over lunch and when I get home and talk about the stuff in which I'm interested with like-minded people, and being able to actually like what I am doing sounds pretty good right now.


Anywhoo----I go from nasty place of work on supersexy bike to building with beer.