"Bettering yourself through education" in a field such as anthropology is (or at least can be) great and enriching experience but unless you've got some researc

"Bettering yourself through education" in a field such as anthropology is (or at least can be) great and enriching experience but unless you've got some research grant paying you an appropriate salary as an 'apprentice researcher' it is pretty much an expensive luxury, not an investment. So if you can afford it and think that this will make you happy, by all means, more power to you, but if you can't afford to spend these years doing self-fulfillment instead of working on something that people are willing to pay for, then you should rather pick something else; the world already has more qualified anthropologists than there's available funding for them to do research.