I got into the wrong career lol

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I personally never understood dropping out when something like this happeneds. Like bro now you got the money to have the degree and not worry about paying it off. Might as well have it just to have it
- They drop out so they can do the other thing full time instead of part time...
  Especially because it's porn. Gotta make as much money now while she can
  
  Yeah, can always go back to school when you age out at 25...
  
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- With 2m instead properly you won't have to work another day in your life, with 1m you won't either but you might not be able to live in the buffet cities.
  Give me 1m and I'm retiring tomorrow.
  
  How old are you and where do you live that you think thats enough to retire comfortably?
  
  We were talking about winning the lotto at work once and I said with a million dollars I would probably quit if I could earn 5% interest on it to get 50k a year. My boss was like, that's not enough you have to think about daycare and mortgage and car payments and everything. I then reminded him that I was currently making 30k a year. He stopped talking very quickly lol.
  
  They said invested, not 'put in a checking account and drawn down'. Even 5% returns would be 50k annually, which is already more than the median individual income. Actual return on the S&P 500 for the last 25 years has been around 8%.
  
  50k us is about what I make now and I'm in the suburbs.
  Invested safely that's what I would make with 1m, with 2m I'm having the time of my life.
  I could have lived off that at any age as I'm currently making the most I've ever made by about 6k compared to my previous job...
  
  Buffet cities? Every city I know has at least one buffet.
  
  Cicis pizza cities only
  
  Bigger, swipe typing does that sometimes 🤪
- In some ways I understand it though. I'm sure the pecking order and bragging rights of being one of the only fans people that makes enough money to classify yourself in like the top 5% of income earners in America is probably more thrilling and exciting than having a PhD.
  Plus, if she's going for her PhD she probably already has her master's degree so it's not like she gave up academia entirely without getting anything from it.
  That being said, I still agree with you. If you were close enough to be in the program you might as well just finish it off. What's it going to do, stop you from posting your photos on only fans?
  
  Uhh...do you people know anybody who's been through a phd program? How would you rate their happiness from 1 to 10 while they were mid-phd program?
  If that crap isn't going to deliver them the world, it's gonna be a reeeeeal hard sell to get em to put up with it.
  
  This. I dropped out of my computer science PhD to start at the bottom of the industry in my early thirties.
  If you don't have a clear love of academia, a PhD is a clearly unrewarding slog.
  
  And if you can earn a million each year as an alternative, why wouldn't you go for it? I love science, but we live in a real world, not in a dream, and this real world decided that science wouldn't be rewarding.
- I know right? Imagine how much more a doctor could charge for sexy pics.
- Academia is misogynist enough without an OF account. She's leaving a shitty job not just a low paying job.

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