<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>