[Phanuthier]

(Antithesis) : Definitely helps. I spoke of a few reasons I continued on with further degrees after my undergrad, one of them was that there were no jobs avail, but part of it was also that I just didn't feel ready to work the jobs that were being offered. In my last semester, I was sort of going "holy crap! this life is almost over - now what?"

I certainly thought about teaching, something I think I would enjoy, but for personal/family reasons, I have to do engineering for at least a few years, otherwise I think my family might think its unacceptable. And in fairness, its not that I hate it and I am pretty content to do it in the short term, but I'm not sure I really have that passion that some of my peers do.