[hugh3]

You're just finishing one (useful) degree and you're considering doing a second (useless) one? This sounds to me like typical end-of-university doldrums with a bit of quarter-life-crisis thrown in.

My advice would be to give the whole full time work thing a try for a couple of years. It may be that your desire to go back to university will abate. Then again, maybe it won't, and at least you'll have some more money saved up.

Four years is a lot of your life to invest in learning to paint, so I advise being really sure about it before you do it. And if you were really sure you wouldn't even be asking.

[freshfey]

To you it's useless, to others it's a form of creativity - why diss it? I wouldn't say art is a useless degree. It's all about what you do with it. Comp Sci is useless if you don't use it for interesting projects.