Hi, I'd be happy to see if I can help you find some plausible ideas.
I think you are carrying around some IMplausible ideas I get from your message:
1. With my English career, I COULD NOT get ANY job that involves economics. All I COULD do is be an administrative assistant, but that would have nothing to do with a future career is an economist.
2. There is NO chance I could go to a state school or get a scholarship to fund further education.
3. The ONLY jobs that would possibly satisfy my interest in economics would require a doctoral degree. (For example, nobody EVER uses a 2-year full-time MBA, with a finance speciality, as the stepping stone into a great economics job that doesn't require a doctorate.)
4. There' NOTHING AT ALL I could do to raise extra funds for graduate education other than work more years as an administrative assistant in a field I don't enjoy, but it's the only job I could get with an English degree.
5. Biological clocks ruthlessly have an alarm set for 36. After that, IT'S ALL OVER!
6. While developing my career and education, there's ABSOLUTELY NO chance I could ALSO find a wonderful relationship that would lead to marriage and kids. After all, all that overtime as an administrative assistant, than all that studying required for the job I really want, is 100% incompatible with ANY chance of having a social life and starting a family.
7. Steve Pavlina's example of completing college quickly has nothing to do with me. A PhD would definitely require at least 7 years of full time study.
8. As an administrative assistant saving up for a prepaid PhD, there's NO WAY I could possibly afford to share an apartment, have a cute car and enjoy dating.
9. Graduate school and a PhD program simply can't coexist with any opportunity to work one's way through school as one goes. The money simply HAS to be there BEFORE you can start any studies.
I think, if you're going to be an economist, you need to do better at debunking unexamined fallacies! What if these axioms you've adopted are actually invalid? What if your own personal economic paradigm is already obsolete?  |