Universillege.

[oddler]

Gun to your head, what's harder and more useful, English Lit. or Physics?

Le sigh.

If I do go onto having a career in education on the university level, then I'll have to get a PhD. If not, I'll probably stop at my Masters degree.

I was of the understanding that a Masters is enough for university level education. Is that wrong or does it differ across states?

Even now when I talk to my dad about other schools he'll go on and say something like "oh and I'm sure they have plenty of basketweaving if that's what you wanna do, whatever."

EDIT:

I am also in that club. My parents never finished high school.

I read the first part and then got to the edit and had to do a double-take. I can understand that maybe he's going into some protective mode where he's trying to safeguard you from doing something you'll regret but it looks like he has very little room to pass around advice.

A couple of the reasons I never seriously went to college were because:
1) I didn't have a good reason to go. I didn't see what I was going to gain in the long run that I couldn't learn through self-discipline or through practical application and
2) I didn't know what I wanted to "do."

Those and this...

Student loans are no joke though. Daaamn.

When I graduated high school, I chose earning money over spending money. xD

So yeah, I'm "uneducated" but I'm happy and financially well at the same time.