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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (50314)	1/1/2018 2:33:54 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 364358

>> I shudda dropped out of medicine and gone back to Cal for a Ph.D in energy/environment. Those decisions are hard at the time. I was really good at accounting, which was a relatively high paying profession. And when studying to become a CPA it held my interest. But you take the test and start having days full of appointments and the old deadlines month after month and it gets old in a hurry. Hard to keep the quality up. Much better with the work you like. There I was as a CPA taking marginally profitable jobs writing serial interfaces for medical systems to keep from having to do more profitable accounting work. When my daughter started to school she wanted to major in special ed. She had been working with autistic kids part time, and wanted to do that. I pushed her toward Speech Pathology, figuring a bit more income potential there, and autism is largely about speech too. That worked out well for her. But her PhD ended up being in behavioral science specializing in autism intervention. you just never know where you're going to end up. If I were starting over today I'd give it a lot more thought. If I had read Feynman's 195& paper on nanotechnology that's where I would have headed.