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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
Sorry, I've got to comment on something here. 14 years total of school should NOT be wearing on you. Now, I'm not saying you should enjoy it, but you're not going to be successful with that kind of attitude. Doctors are in school a minimum total of 20 years straight, and then they continue learning afterwards. Lawyers are very similar. The majority of people with Bachelor's degrees are in school between 15 and 17 years straight. Many people who get Masters Degrees do so immediately afterwards, making it about 17-19 years. Sorry, but IMO, complaining about 14 years of school is the college equivalent of a high schooler complaining they've been in school for 10 years. You do what's necessary to learn and be successful and by college you can start doing it in a field you enjoy.
To be honest, if you don't go for a Masters right after undergrad, you probably never will. It's a simple fact: once people stop education they rarely get back involved. No different than undergrad really. I have a friend who "took a break" from college because he wasn't sure what he wanted to do and a few other reasons. It's now the second year of this "break" and I don't see him working particularly hard to start up school again.
If you want to do school less intensively after your Bachelor's, that's fine, but always take a clas or two if you intend on going for another degree, or else you'll most likely never return to it.
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You know, I didn't COMPLAIN about school. I said that it was wearing on me because I go to school fulltime and work fulltime, try to balance a long distance relationship that I feel is falling apart on my side, my mother has breast cancer and has gone insane about health, I hardly ever see my dad, and I share a room with my bitchy 16 year old sister. See, NOW you got me to complain. I didn't ask you to tell me I'm like a high schooler--that offends me deeply. I DID ask everyone if they think I should get a Masters Degree, and what the point of it is.
