Conclusions

Hello, friends. Sorry for the lack of a third blog last week. I’ve been busy helping out my cousin before his hip replacement and doing a bunch of other stuff. I’ve been especially busy at work, where I usually do my blogging, as the APS has a conference coming up that they have a lot of work to do in order to prepare for.

Today, I’m going to say a few words about the sort of conclusion I’m hoping to reach at the end of this. We’ve done salary, we’ve done hours, and we’ve done employment satisfaction. We’ve been moving from simple topics to more complicated ones. It’s very easy to say that one field makes more than another on average, because that’s an objective statistic. It’s much harder and much less definitive and applicable to say that one field is happier than another, because there are so many factors that go into happiness and it’s so variable. It’s all dependent on the personal wants and needs of an individual person.

So, unfortunately, I won’t be able to give a definitive “yes” or “no” answer as to whether you should or should not get a second degree with no qualifications. But, I’ll be able to give a helpful recommendation based on a few factors. I can say that you should take a certain course of action if you want to work fewer hours or longer hours or value money over satisfaction or something like that. It just won’t be unqualified.

Next time I’ll start getting into employment data.