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MissAsylum -> RE: Anybody have higher than a master's degree? (10/30/2010 5:17:03 AM)
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well my degrees are fine art with a minor in history and art with a concentration in painting. My master's will be the fine art.
I love the field of art and i'm not a happy camper if i'm not involved in it in some way. 1st year of college for me, which started while i was a junior in high school, i believed that i should be an English teacher(an idea imposed on me by my mom, not bitter or anything), and i barely passed my junior year of high school and 1st year of college because i was ridiculously depressed about it. I didn't know it had stemmed from what i had chosen as my college course path until i took myself to a therapist before I truly had lost my mind.
She suggested that I take a wide range of classes for my second year to get a feel for what I really wanted to do. Instantaneously, i was drawn to art. It should have made sense for me to do so- at both my mother's home in the states and my father's home in the UK, they both gave me my own working space just to keep the metric tons of paintings and supplies confined to one area, instead of taking over the whole house.
So i believe art is my calling. its not work to me.
I am hoping to be a museum curator, and typically, a master's is a preferred to run the whole lot.
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ORIGINAL: barelynangel
There are many many people i know who are going for their PhD in their chosen fields. However, they are doing it after having been in their field for a while. There are many people who i know have their PhDs and i would suggest you may want to consider first working in the field you want to get your Ph.D. in as it does kind of suck if you spend time getting a PhD only to realize 20 years down the road its not something that actually benefits you. I know a couple people like this and its very frustrating for them. However, if you are interested in teaching in the field you get your PhD as in college -- i hear they get some pretty cushy jobs lol and usually are very well off because of the PhD.
To me, if you are going to put your time and energy getting a PhD, you may as well get it in something you 1) enjoy, 2) will be able to use to benefit yourself at a career etc.
Otherwise, to me, i would work on getting a master's in your other degree, and then perhaps work in the field you are interested in pursuing a PhD in before putting time and energy into it. Because your field may not need one and while it may make you feel important, to me, if you can't use it, it really doesn't make sense to get one -- and it makes people raise eyebrows when someone says they have a PhD and end up in the extreme working in a low paying job that they are miserable at and their PhD didn't benefit them at all.
How fulfilling would that be? I agree that if you are wanting simply the "letters" behind your name, become a doctor or a nurse or a college professor, or pick a field wherein the letters will actually do you some good.
Personally, if you don't know really what you want to be when you grow up -- i would instead of the PhD go for more education in other fields -- i.e., getting specific masters in various fields so that if you do decide to change fields you will have the education and your experience of working will actually help you move through the careers more laterally.
angel
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