<p>No time for kids, is more like it (not me, but him). People are sometimes impressed by the number of degrees, but in reality, it's actually a bad thing. It means that you were unfocused or unhappy with an initial decision and had to "start over". Besides, as soon as you get a PhD, those master's degrees aren't that important.</p>
<p>The really impressive people are the ones that go BS -> PhD and have a tenure track position at age 26.</p>
<p>Getting overly papered to early in your career is definitly not a good thing. You want to lay that track and keep a career path except in extreme circumstances.</p>
<p>When I was getting my BS I knew some guys in the 50s though getting the same degree. I asked one why and he said he nothing better to do, that he had made a fortune buying and liscensing patents at a young age. Now that he had time he decided to figure out what all the fancy jargon in those patents meant. I liked that guy.</p>
<p>That's the new thing - retired people getting degrees.</p>
<p>Many of the southern public schools (particularly rural ones) have retirement living around them. The retired folks, who have a bunch of free time anyway, go to school to learn things that just interest them. </p>
<p>It actually works out well for everyone. The schools gets money from the retired students, and the retired students keep their minds active and do something constructive with their free time.</p>
<p>haha, that is true G.P. I’ve seen that plenty of times. Learning is great for all ages. Plus, with the way the economy is you might as well go to school, lol, don’t want to stay home and get depressed watching CNN and Fox, lol.</p>
<p>Yeah, petroleum engineers make the highest starting AND median pay. And yes their job opportunities are obviously gonna be good due to the crisis. The only problem I see is that a, um, ceretain political party, doesn’t want to drill off of the gulf…so its not as good as it could be. But still a VERY good option.</p>
<p>Me on the other hand am going Nuclear. heres why:
“Aside from helping the country become less dependent, students of nuclear power could see a starting salary of about $65,000 per year. Also, according to the Nuclear Energy Institute, about 45 percent of workers in the nuclear industry could be eligible to retire or will leave the field in the next five years. This is leaving many openings and causing companies to up their recruiting efforts.”</p>
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<p>I know u already made ur decision but there’s my 2 cents.</p>