Hmm. This is probably completely unhelpful, but I think that if you're not super-eager enough about any of those things to be able to say, yes, I want to do that above all else, then it is seriously okay to spend a year or two figuring it out. And, like you say, you have a good job... why not just do that for a while until you've got a better idea of what you actually want.*
For example, the 3 and a half years I spent after uni in a series of jobs I didn't enjoy much (including my first office job) involved a lot of work-related rage and emo lj posts, but I'm really glad I didn't jump straight into looking (probably futilely) for grad work or go and attempt a law degree when I was 19. And it's definitely made me more grateful for (a) my awesome, awesome job, and (b) the study I am doing, even if I'm a slackass.
But! You seem like an actual GROUNDED and WELL-ROUNDED person, so IDK. Uh. If a PhD is REALLY what you want to be working towards, though, there's no harm in trying to get funding, even if it is a horrible, soul-destroying process (and callie doesn't seem to think it is).
* Unless your problem is things-you-want-to-do>time-you-have-to-do-them. In that case, time to work out your priorities may or may not be helpful.
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Date: 2009-07-10 10:39 am (UTC)For example, the 3 and a half years I spent after uni in a series of jobs I didn't enjoy much (including my first office job) involved a lot of work-related rage and emo lj posts, but I'm really glad I didn't jump straight into looking (probably futilely) for grad work or go and attempt a law degree when I was 19. And it's definitely made me more grateful for (a) my awesome, awesome job, and (b) the study I am doing, even if I'm a slackass.
But! You seem like an actual GROUNDED and WELL-ROUNDED person, so IDK. Uh. If a PhD is REALLY what you want to be working towards, though, there's no harm in trying to get funding, even if it is a horrible, soul-destroying process (and
* Unless your problem is things-you-want-to-do>time-you-have-to-do-them. In that case, time to work out your priorities may or may not be helpful.