[TheForge] Merry Christmas everybody!

[Justin Fellenz]

Amen. Did the same durn thing for the same reason. I'd still love to do
a Ph.D or maybe an MFA, but just to know the stuff, not to try to make
a dollar and certainly not to bring glory to my committee. I could
never quite see myself a slave on the tenure wheel. It was the best
career decision I ever made, except maybe the one before it where I
decided that maybe being a professional jazz bass trombonist isn't a
lucrative life choice.

Whew, did I get lucky.

J

--- Andrew Vida <osan at netlabs.net> wrote:

> Back in 1990 I applied to do my PhD.  As I contemplated just how
> burned 
> out I was after completing my MS, and that the Doctorate would not
> bring 
> me a penny more in the way of cashola, and the fact that I'd learned
> all 
> I wanted to learn of theoretical computing and AI, I came rapidly to
> my 
> senses and bailed.
> 
> Jerry Frost wrote:
> > Studying for a PhD is learning more and more about less and less.
> > 
> > Frosty
> 
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