You all are so funny and so much fun!!
Scarlet and Taylor got it in one, I think. I already have four letters after my name and a great job, and I was doing grad school because (a) I thought it would be helpful for my current job, which it has been, and (b) I thought it would be fun, which it was up until a massive faculty change in my program last summer. I had entertained thoughts of maybe getting a second professional license and practicing the new career after I retired, some 15-plus years hence, but it was never about making more money. It was always going to be a net cost in terms of money and time.
So I started spring semester last week, and as I sat in class with a professor I don't respect and don't like, I just thought "Heck no! This isn't enough fun to continue to be a $1,000-plus monthly line item in the budget!" So I dropped my classes, tripled my clothing budget, bought the rest of the furniture I needed for the guest room, and am feeling pretty darned awesome about the whole thing! LOL
(And Hubby is pretty delighted, too. Although he supports me in whatever I want to do, he was getting pretty tired of me being gone two nights a week and doing homework on the weekends!)
