Ustwo

You can feel free to follow your dreams, goals, etc, and I recommend it, but you should not expect others to pick you up if you fall.

Very few people have myopic goals if they really think about them. My goals would have been as follows, and all were of about equal importance.

1. Do something I enjoy doing.
2. Do something where I can make enough to raise a family.
3. Do something which had job security.
4. Work for myself.

Now lets take one of my first joys, which was marine biology, and how it applies to the 1-4.

1. Yes, I enjoy doing it very much.
2. If my wife worked too then we could raise a family.
3. You are as secure as your next grant.
4. Very unlikely. Best you could hope for is running your own lab (mostly) and I know from personal experience what that is like to run a lab with school bureaucracy.

So it didn't fit my goals.

Now if you REALLY do love something and are willing to take a hit in other areas, go for it, and enjoy your life that way. Despite what you are told there is nothing special about an education for the sake of education (and think who really preaches this sort of thing). If you want to go out and become a Sandscrit major thats great, but no one owes you anything when you can't find a job.

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