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Comment author: David_Gerard 07 December 2010 05:29:04PM *  8 points [-]

There is the minor detail that it really helps not to hate each and every individual second of your working life in the process. A goal will only pull you along to a certain degree.

(Computer types know all the money is in the City. I did six months of it. I found the people I worked with and the people whose benefit I worked for to be excellent arguments for an unnecessarily bloody socialist revolution.)

Comment author: wedrifid 07 December 2010 06:57:43PM 2 points [-]

A goal will only pull you along to a certain degree.

For many people that is about half way between the Masters and PhD degrees. ;)

If only being in a university was a guarantee of an enjoyable working experience.