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Notimeforfear, if I may ask, what are your goals? What do you want to accomplish in your lifetime?
I've spent most of my life in schooling of one form or another. (When I finished my training, I told my kids I was graduating from the 27th grade!) An education can be extremely valuable. But ultimately, all it is yet another tool to get you where you want to go, and to help you do what you want to do. If your degree won't help you do what you want to do, then it is a very expensive waste of time.
What do you enjoy most in life? What makes you happy? If at all possible, figure a way to make a living doing that. If that isn't possible, find a way to make a living that allows you to do it as much as possible.
I became a surgeon because I love surgery. If I didn't love surgery, then the 4 years of undergrad, 4 years of medical school, 5 years of general surgical residency and 2 years of subspecialty training would have been unbearable, and a complete waste of time. Instead, despite 100+ hour work weeks I was happy WHILE I was pursuing my goal of becoming a surgeon. And now that I am a surgeon, I enjoy what I do. And what I do enables me to enjoy my other interests, such as ranching. But if what I loved was ranching first and foremost, and not surgery, I would have been crazy to become a surgeon just to find away to afford ranching.
Follow your dreams. Use schooling as a means to attain them, by all means. But keep your eye on the ball. Sometimes you do have to go through an unpleasant stretch to get where you are going. But you are generally better off if you can find a path that allows you to enjoy the trip along the way.
I've spent most of my life in schooling of one form or another. (When I finished my training, I told my kids I was graduating from the 27th grade!) An education can be extremely valuable. But ultimately, all it is yet another tool to get you where you want to go, and to help you do what you want to do. If your degree won't help you do what you want to do, then it is a very expensive waste of time.
What do you enjoy most in life? What makes you happy? If at all possible, figure a way to make a living doing that. If that isn't possible, find a way to make a living that allows you to do it as much as possible.
I became a surgeon because I love surgery. If I didn't love surgery, then the 4 years of undergrad, 4 years of medical school, 5 years of general surgical residency and 2 years of subspecialty training would have been unbearable, and a complete waste of time. Instead, despite 100+ hour work weeks I was happy WHILE I was pursuing my goal of becoming a surgeon. And now that I am a surgeon, I enjoy what I do. And what I do enables me to enjoy my other interests, such as ranching. But if what I loved was ranching first and foremost, and not surgery, I would have been crazy to become a surgeon just to find away to afford ranching.
Follow your dreams. Use schooling as a means to attain them, by all means. But keep your eye on the ball. Sometimes you do have to go through an unpleasant stretch to get where you are going. But you are generally better off if you can find a path that allows you to enjoy the trip along the way.
dcara
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Something else I forgot to mention is the benefit package of working for a company. Due to medical costs these days you really need to have decent medical and dental insurance (the later for your kids), which most employers will provide for you and your future family. Then of course there is the 401K plans so your not as dependent on Social Security in the later years; and paid time off for the occasional vacation such as putting in a new pasture 
Caustic Burno
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Sir Loin":qqxhriii said:
I hold three myself
I have a BS
A MS which stands for More S***
and a PHD for piling it higher and deeper.
ga. prime
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Get the necessary education to become a RN or PA. The final destination of all wealth in this country is into the hands of the health care racket, the supporting pharmaceutical industry, and the insurors thereof. To me, the RN/PA option is the most attractive.
