"The only reason to do a PhD is because you love doing research." Can't stress this enough. A lot of people do grad school just because they didn't like a stri

"The only reason to do a PhD is because you love doing research." Can't stress this enough. A lot of people do grad school just because they didn't like a string of jobs they had, think they need more training to switch to a certain specialty, or even just because they're still basically searching for what they want to do in life. Those are all excellent questions to ask yourself before taking another job, and also excellent ways to go into grad school with exactly the wrong attitude and become a huge dropout risk. I got lucky and learned all this without having to go to grad school. My first job out of college was at my college because I turned my undergrad job into a fulltime role and the grad students were the only other people on that part of campus that were close to my age. The biggest difference between the ones that enjoyed the experience and those that didn't even make it to the end was that the dropouts still didn't know exactly what they wanted to do in life, so they thought they'd try research only to get chewed up and spat out by tenure-starved associate professors.