Series of wrong turns
Hi, I’m in need of some life advice because i’m feeling so lost. I’m 26, I did very well at university and got a master’s from Harvard in a subject that I loved.
Since then, I’ve made some weird turns in my career. I’m still in the same subject area but I’ve pivoted in weird ways. Now I want to do the role I’ve been interested in for a while, but this will likely need a PhD. My partner and I are saving for a house as we hope to have kids in early thirties, and unfortunately doing a PhD would completely hijack the possibility of saving for that. I’m not sure what we do because it feels like I’ve wasted three years of my life only to get more of a sense of what I want to achieve.
Has anyone else ever been in this position where you look at your career and think what am I doing? Any advice to get out of that frame of mind and not feel a total sense of doom?
Any advice would be so appreciated.