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Discussion on: What's the best career decision you've ever made?

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Jesse Menn

I dropped out of an English PhD program where I was specializing in eighteenth-century literature to take a job as the college's sole web guy. I'm fairly certain I already make more than I would have made for the first 10-15 years of professing (if I finished the PhD), and I find myself more intellectually engaged with my current work than studying literature. I haven't been this happy in 5 years.