I was fortunate enough to have several brilliant Ph.D's discourage me from getting one. Basically they said unless you want to be a tenured professor or a resea

I was fortunate enough to have several brilliant Ph.D's discourage me from getting one. Basically they said unless you want to be a tenured professor or a research lead at a government lab and that's the goal on which you are fixated, it's a massive waste of time.