forgot to post about this...

[zoomama]

Over the weekend, we sat down with the kids to discuss the fact that, now that it was 100% sure that I was going to grad school, we were definitely going to be moving somewhere. And while there's still the possibility that we might rent out this house and return to it, that would be a minimum of 4 years from now, probably more like 5, so Alma and

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[bearpaw9]

**Lemuel: "Five years?!!! I thought it would only take a few months or a year or something! (Don't I wish Ph.D.s were that easy to get!)**

I think even *I* might have missed the part where you definitely decided on a Ph.D. I think I was imagining the old plan, just a Master's Degree and teach commmunity college...?

However, I am betting that you will quickly come to love your new location. I know that not all of your kids are outgoing, but I think they can handle it.

[zoomama]

I don't remember when I officially switched the plan from MS to PhD, but I'm thinking probably late October or early November. It was a gradual switch though...I was considering the PhD track as early as August.

And why did I do so? I finally admitted to myself that the only reason I wasn't going for a Ph.D. was that I didn't think I could come up with an original research idea, which was a dumb reason not to do it. If being around KosherTurkey has taught me anything, it's that you should always try to do something you're interested in, even if you think you don't have a particularly large chance of success.

[zoomama]

The problem with wanting a job in academia is that you don't get to live where you want. You certainly can't decide where you want to live five years in advance.

Oh, and most people don't get academic jobs straight out of school; they have to post-doc first. So it might be as much as 8 years for me. That's a long time to hold on to a house as a rental.