I don't believe the market is particularly good at determining value in anything other than the most short-sighted terms. I think there's a hell of a lot of tea

I don't believe the market is particularly good at determining value in anything other than the most short-sighted terms. I think there's a hell of a lot of teachers, social workers, and others bringing more value to the world than some software developer cranking out brochure web sites, making banner ads, cranking out another zynga game, etc or some management consultant that talks in nonsensical corporatespeak that is paying paid hundreds of dollars an hour to advise some company on its decision-making processes. I'm not complaining, I'm the first person to admit about the inefficiencies and shortcomings of the modern non-profit industrial complex, I'm jut saying most of the world rolls their eyes when they hear people talk about how hard it is to be offered all these jobs. I chose to go into debt because I was studying interesting things (non-linear systems modeling as applies to social systems/problems) and I thought the academic credentials could provide an on-ramp to being able to work on big social problems on inter-disciplinary teams. This didn't happen, for a variety of reasons, not the least of which because social work itself doesn't value itself as a distinct and credible field the way, say, economics does. All that being said, most of humanity still doesn't have the luxury of picking and choosing how they want to put food on the table, so it just smacks of privilege anytime I hear anyone whining of too many job offers, etc.