The Pros and Cons of Graduate School
Jason Kuznicki on Sep 28th 2005
Here’s a quote from a comment thread at Crooked Timber. I found it weirdly uplifting in light of my continued search for employment:
Anyhow, I must say that if you’re not interested in a career so much as knowledge, there are far worse ways to spend the best years of your life than graduate school. Those I know who elected to embark on the “real world” route are currently underemployed, unhappy and desperate for something meaningful to slam them in the face forthwith. I, on the other hand, have spent the past few years poor… but worrying only about money… (Not a glowing endorsement of either lifestyle, I agree… but we live in a hard world, and living a meaningful life is much more difficult than our earlier incarnations ever imagined.)
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My two years in grad school were the poorest of my life, but also two of the happiest. Intellectual satisfaction with only worries about money, as the comment suggested. Good times.