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[quote=Anonymous]My DH has a PhD and works in a corporate setting. He went back at 28 the year before we got married, worked full time and went to school full time. It took about five years to finish everything incl dissertation and it was a very long five years for both of us. He was in class at night during the week, studying/researching/writing all weekend. I guess it was worth it in the end (he makes about $150k now) but I wonder if he could've gotten the same job with just a masters.

I was in a PhD program for a year but quit - this was right after college. The primary reason I quit was because in my field there were approx 70 applicants for every professor position that opened. I know the ratio doesn't sound that bad compared to job hunting in this economy but consider there were maybe three to five full time professor positions to open throughout the country each year. Not great odds, and then consider that those jobs could be anywhere - no guarantee they'd be in a place I wanted to live. And then there's the salary...ultimately, it just wasn't worth the five to seven years of work to me to then graduate with minimal possibilities of a job in my field. Ultimately, I got my Masters and taught middle school and high school. When I was in the PhD program I was a snob about teaching high school - how could they possibly comprehend the subject matter at an analytical level that would be meaningful to me...we would only be scraping the surface...Boy was I wrong. Teaching is about so much more than loving the subject matter...if you really want to teach, I would strongly consider whether you need a PhD to do it. [/quote]

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