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by ggm 1157 days ago
Golf Studies.

* Income, outdoor lifestyle, opportunities for travel. Good phd topics across economics, law, environment and civil engineering. And, you make (some, admittedly very poor dress sense, I mean those shoes...) people happy.

Look, it's bizarre but even actuarial studies can be immensely rewarding. Who knew statistics on when and how people die was so fascinating? It's impossible to say a priori which field of study "is the best one" because taken seriously, they all are. It depends who you are, what drives you, and your capabilities latent and overt.

Now law. That's where great minds go to die.

When I was at uni I thought it was arts. That was the 80s. I've had a great life, fruitful, fun, fulfilling and well renumerated for over 40 years from studying computer science in a tiny British post 1950s redbrick university.

I am not sure I'd recommend that now.

The student debt crisis is economically stupid and an attack on the young.