I did a little edit up there. But hard to say. I had a hell of a lot fun and worked my ass off. I have fond memories even if grad school was the most “it was the best of times, it was worst of times” period of my life. And it wasn’t the fault of the school or the program that I didn’t pursue a career in the field I studied. I try not to have regrets. When I decided to do it my thoughts were that I didn’t want to find myself ten or twenty years down the road thinking “What if?” and regretting not having “pursued my dreams.” I’m o.k. with it. I was a little less magnanimous towards my decision about grad school in general, and that program in particular, during the 12 years it took me to pay off my student loans but that’s been done with for 5 years.
I am very consciously and purposely being vague and obscure about the program and field I studied so no need to ask me about it :-).
I’ve also thought of going back to school and either getting another masters or a PhD. but I’m not sure I’m up to it at this point and not entirely sure what I would study and until I’m sure about both things I’m holding off. And I also would like the program to be fairly close to me because I don’t want to pick up and start over somewhere else at this point in my life, and there are some very good schools in my area but nothing they have really appeals to me. I would love to find a “Propaganda Studies” program in someone’s School of Communication or Sociology or around here but haven’t found anything suitable and it is probably something I could probably put together with cooperative departments and professors but I’m just not energized enough about going back to school right now to pursue it.
Anyway, bottom line, I don’t think any education is ever wasted.