So, I had gotten a hand injury in my senior year of college so I couldn't finish my performance degree (you can't perform, you can't be a performance major). Around that time consulting came calling and I was like "Why go back and finish a music degree worth a cup of coffee when I'm already making double what I expected to make as a musician?" Honestly, I don't regret that decision at all. I look at it as a business decision, and if I was running a business with a similar problem I would've made the same decision. A degree wouldn't have helped me all that much at this point and diverting time and resources away from "climbing the ladder" at that point to finish wouldn't have paid back the return on investment.
However, I'm getting fed up with this corporate lifestyle and have seriously been playing with the idea of leaving it behind and becoming a teacher. I taught in college and loved it. Right now, I can't realistically consider it, with my kids and finances where they are. But I can see the light at the end of that tunnel and know in a few years it is something that I can not only consider, but actually do. Anyone done this sorta thing? Any advice?
It could be my mid-life crisis talking, but I don't want to get to the end of life and feel that all I accomplished was to make a few rich people richer. That would be a decision I WOULD regret. I don't have much choice now, but I will have a choice later.
