Why?

[pondelniholka]

Once upon a time, I had a job I loved... a nice apartment...furniture...I took regular scuba diving vacations...my bank account had money in it...I went to nightclubs, took Ecstasy and danced on tables til dawn with glamorous people...and I gave it up to live with 5 roommates, take out $25,000 in loans, and slave for egocentric asshole professors.

Comments

[freddie]

Remember when Bart made fun of a grad student, and Marge said to him "Don't mock grad students, Bart. They just made a terrible life choice"?

[iluvrob20]

i just had this same moment. My mother's response was "you're investing in your future" and I said "what if my stock market crashes" and ate ice cream.

[roseofjuly]

Oh man I wish I had ice cream :)

[loriel_daydream]

and... why? :)

[lostreality]

a job i love..check
nice apartment..check
furniture..check
regular vacations...check
money in the bank...check
nightclubs, drugs and dancing...check
no student loans...check

seems to me you might be in the wrong program. :) Or maybe after 6 years I finally got this grad school thing down...

[kort_ni]

this minus the drugs(by choice)...and apparently it only took me 3 years to get it down, but I am betting on the program issue

[roseofjuly]

Yeah - all of it will likely be on a smaller scale than you're used to if you had a pretty well-paying job, but aside from the small start-up loan I took out at the beginning to get my apartment (security deposit), I think all is accounted for.

[tisiphone]

Because you're insane. Happens to the best of us. I blew off a high paid high tech job for the glamourous life of Marxian economics!