Wondering if I should go back to granulate school

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

I have been wondering lately if I should go back to school and get a masters degree. In just about anything. Maybe psychology or who the fuck knows? Something that will enable me to earn some money.

I am having a lot of doubts (for like the past ten years) about my photography career. Even looking at other photographers work makes me kind of ill. I feel very cynical about the whole industry. It's all crap. Crappy craptastic crap. Crappetty crapulent crap.

My wife thinks I would make a shitty shrink because I get impatient with people's crap. Tonight she allowed that I would probably make a good gestalt therapist...

Whatever, suppose I got a pair of dark glasses and pretended to be a blind shrink, then I could just roll my eyes or snooze while the patient was yakkign about their crap. Maybe this is not the right attitude to have.

But I still wonder if I should go back to school to get a better degree. Now I kind of wish I HAD gone back to school 6 years ago to become and MRI tech when I had the chance. I'd be just about done by now.

Crappy crapness

Choose carefully. You definitely should go back but not for Psych. You can still go back and do something Rad though, there is a market for it. What is your undergrad in? Anything to do with science?

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Choose carefully. You definitely should go back but not for Psych. You can still go back and do something Rad though, there is a market for it. What is your undergrad in? Anything to do with science?

Sadly, no science in undergrad. Going back to HS I was on track for a pre-med thing, lots of science, advanced bio, anatomy, etc. then a whole lot of shit went down at my school with budget cuts, my two favorite teachers were let go and replaced with a total prick who had it out for me, meanwhile my parents split up during my junior and senior year so I got derailed. I didn't end up going to college until I was 32 and went back to get a degree in photography after already having over ten years of professional experience in that field. After one week I realized I could have taught any of the undergrad photo courses so I switched majors to sculpture, got my degree and went right back into photography...

So, I have a good science aptitude, some familiarity but no college science experience.

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

Sadly, no science in undergrad. Going back to HS I was on track for a pre-med thing, lots of science, advanced bio, anatomy, etc. then a whole lot of shit went down at my school with budget cuts, my two favorite teachers were let go and replaced with a total prick who had it out for me, meanwhile my parents split up during my junior and senior year so I got derailed. I didn't end up going to college until I was 32 and went back to get a degree in photography after already having over ten years of professional experience in that field. After one week I realized I could have taught any of the undergrad photo courses so I switched majors to sculpture, got my degree and went right back into photography...

So, I have a good science aptitude, some familiarity but no college science experience.

There's your sign, or is that a little too close to home? You could teach with a master's.