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Leaving grad school and getting a real, balanced job. It really hit me when during an internship I asked 'is the building open on weekends', and I was told 'yes
by darioush 9y ago
Leaving grad school and getting a real, balanced job.
It really hit me when during an internship I asked 'is the building open on weekends', and I was told 'yes, but why would you want to be here?'
A further 'reckoning' was when I realized each year of grad school cost me 100k+. Opportunity costs.
Also if you are obese, you need to fix that sooner rather than later.
- dabockster 9y ago> was when I realized each year of grad school cost me 100k+. Opportunity costs. Money aside, the biggest opportunity cost of education is time. Looking back on my undergrad, I spent an extra year trying to edge out a BS degree when everyone around me was telling me to take the BA in CS and settle for that. In the moment, I felt that the BA would hinder my job prospects. Now that I've been out for a year and a half, I realize that I kind of wasted a year in terms of time. I probably would have been in the exact same place I am now if I had just decided to graduate with what I had at the time. And, to add further, I ended up earning a BA anyways. But that's another rant.
- darioush 9y agoThere are other opportunity costs, like losing your passion for what you're doing. After going to grad school in CS I can't do anything with computers beyond my day job. I can't even play video games anymore. There are other costs too like dealing with unnecessary mental stress of job scarcity, arbitrary deadlines, arrogant and self-absorbed people. But time is very easy to overlook as well.