For example, I am now pondering whether to go for a Master's Degree, this fall, or not. Everyone says I should and before graduating there was no doubt in my mind that I would start the three semester post-university classes right away. But now I find myself really not feeling like it. At all.
That was me too when I graduated. My hopes were to get my PhD in clinical psych. The school I had picked had a 10% acceptance rate, and my grades and GRE scores were certainly good enough to get in.
Then...Bush came into office. University funding was slashed. And unemployment skyrocketed. And graduates who normally would have gone into the workforce chose grad school instead.
The acceptance rate at my school dropped to around 1%. The year I would have entered for my master's they accepted 3-4 new grad students in clinical psych. They no longer had funding (clinical psych students usually pay little or no tuition but work for the university during their schooling as teaching assistants, but it's expensive to train a psychologist) and had an influx of applicants who couldn't find jobs and chose grad school instead. The result: I didn't get in.
And within a few months, I had forgotten my ambitions like they'd never been. WTF??
I hope that returning to ecology and biology, which I have always loved, will give me some happiness and meaning. I thought I had it in clinical psych, but obviously not.
Maybe this is you? Have you always wanted to do strategic management? Maybe you have a whole different calling. :)
(I know I heard Feanor calling your name last night.... >:^D)
Heh! that's kinda like me going on the street, minding my own business, and being harassed by various idiots (i.e. construction workers). I turn to them and shout: "Go to fucking Mandos!" In English, of course.
LMFAO!! That is definitely cool! Maybe a bit insane too but mostly cool. :^D
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That was me too when I graduated. My hopes were to get my PhD in clinical psych. The school I had picked had a 10% acceptance rate, and my grades and GRE scores were certainly good enough to get in.
Then...Bush came into office. University funding was slashed. And unemployment skyrocketed. And graduates who normally would have gone into the workforce chose grad school instead.
The acceptance rate at my school dropped to around 1%. The year I would have entered for my master's they accepted 3-4 new grad students in clinical psych. They no longer had funding (clinical psych students usually pay little or no tuition but work for the university during their schooling as teaching assistants, but it's expensive to train a psychologist) and had an influx of applicants who couldn't find jobs and chose grad school instead. The result: I didn't get in.
And within a few months, I had forgotten my ambitions like they'd never been. WTF??
I hope that returning to ecology and biology, which I have always loved, will give me some happiness and meaning. I thought I had it in clinical psych, but obviously not.
Maybe this is you? Have you always wanted to do strategic management? Maybe you have a whole different calling. :)
(I know I heard Feanor calling your name last night.... >:^D)
Heh! that's kinda like me going on the street, minding my own business, and being harassed by various idiots (i.e. construction workers). I turn to them and shout: "Go to fucking Mandos!" In English, of course.
LMFAO!! That is definitely cool! Maybe a bit insane too but mostly cool. :^D