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Another big decision! Advice??

I started a graduate program this year for an MA in History. I always thought what I wanted to do was become a history professor. However, now that I'm in the program I'm not that enamored with it. It's at the same place I did undergrad (a BA in history), where I was kind of the "star" student, so they encouraged me and offered me scholarships to stay on with their program. I feel like it's more of the same and only somewhat challenging. But I know I can springboard into a great PhD program with an MA from here. I'm 25 now, and lately I've been having an urge to settle down. I'm tired of the college atmosphere and now I have a great gf. But I don't think I'd make an attractive husband as a struggling grad student. I was offered a job as an agent with Colonial Penn life insurance, but it's commission-only job (they said no one there makes less than 40k). I could also do teaching if I wanted to. So should I stay with the graduate school, take this job, or teach grade school?

Public Comments

1. I think the big question is, have you ever done sales? Especially insurance sales? Don't be taken in by the money unless it is something you really want to do.
2. If you can teach now. Just think what you could do with the PHD. That 40k would be like pocket change. If this lady is so great she would also see that if you two get together and settle down that your lives would and will be much better with the PHD. Continue the program you had. Get the PHD. Then think about tying the knot after the PHD has been acquired. The benefits to you and your new lady will be greater then. I am sure that she will understand. If not it wasn't all that great then.. You have to have a great foundation to support a great lady. Build that first/
3. no one can answer this question for you but yourself. However you can ask yourself how you will feel if you continue in the program; bored?, unsatisfied?, waste of time? Or do you get a job. If you get a job or teach then you bring in money and will probably be a good thing if you are having a relationship with someone. You can always go back later if that's what you want to do. Having a graduate degree is certainly benefical and you can use that towards a lot of things other than being a professor. You just have to ask yourself over and over what is going to make you happy. And do this before you go to sleep at night, hopefully you will wake up in the morning with the feeling of what is right by you to do. Good Luck!