Smokeywolf - VERY impressive that your college boy is going to be only $5K in debt, he is probably 1 in 100 managing
that well. I did my masters degree, too, and it was a good move, for me. I really felt like there was a good bit more
about metallurgy and materials, plus some more higher end math that I needed before I felt like I had met my own
personal standards of knowledge and was ready to stop doing it. Each person has to figure it out for themselves, sounds like
he has that figured out.
Medicine.....one good friend's daughter went that route. Went really well except that she flushed 1/4 million down a
fancy back east college rather than go to the state college where her father is a prof and could get her free tuition!
People were telling her since she was a teen that she should be a Doc, and she resisted hard until she graduated college
and then looked around and was finally mature enough to see what all the adults who knew her could see already.....
she was cut out to be a doc.
THEN went to the Med School where her father teaches, so made up for the college cost a bit. She is now a praticing doc with
a husband and little boy, so it sorta worked out. Long hard row to hoe, though.
Bret - my wife has done most of our financials, but I have mostly run our investments and retirement, but in close
consultation with her. But she knows more about day to day stuff by far than I do, and does all the tax returns.
Bill