Becoming Unsure about Future Plans

lostaccount
Tue, 05 Feb 2019 04:20:04 +0000

It seems to me that you may be focused on the wrong thing. A PhD is a piece of paper. What is your motivation for continuing in school until you complete a PhD? The degree itself is sort of meaningless right? It’s meaning is enhanced if it helps you along some path -to enable you to do something. What would that something be? If not for that, well you could have simply been reading on your own. I would discourage anyone from pursuing a PhD unless it was required for them to pursue a vocation they had as their goal. Otherwise, it seems like mental “self stim”. A phD is a means to an end but has little value outside of that. It seems sort of pointless if it is the actual goal. Perhaps that is the crux of the problem.