A. Nobody cares about your degree. B. If you ever find yourself in a position where A is not true, you can go back and get the masters degree. Schools will ver

A. Nobody cares about your degree. B. If you ever find yourself in a position where A is not true, you can go back and get the masters degree. Schools will very happily sell you degrees at any point in your life, never fear. (Interestingly, this advice doesn't apply to medical school, where a friend once cautioned me that, if this were a universe where I wanted to achieve the life goal of having one of every degree, I'd better sign up for the M.D. portion before turning 35. But the other degrees are open to anyone who's ready to take on debt.) Take the work. Work, work, work. School is a great thing to do when the market turns way, way south. This is not that time in our field.