Definitely. I think you are hitting on the same point that majos did. The best answer I have is the reason I did a PhD: freedom. It gave me many hours of unstru

Definitely. I think you are hitting on the same point that majos did. The best answer I have is the reason I did a PhD: freedom. It gave me many hours of unstructured time to explore problems I was interested in, which I would not have been able to do while working full time (I tried).