Academia: this is a great career if you have a true vocation as a scholar and teacher. The intellectual rewards are high, the emotional satisfacation is real, if you have a natural bent in that direction. If you do not wish to be a scholar and teacher stay away. Gaining a Ph. D. is truly very hard work, the expense and investment in time is high, and the art is long. The rewards are real, if you value them; they key here is do you value education, because America doe not. Moreover, the financial pay-fo to you is low. Therefore, pursue a career in higher eduction if you wish to become a scholar and a teacher, but, do not go there if you expect to be valued my others or want to make money; for that, you need to go elsewhere.
Of all professions in the U.S., journalists are credited with having the largest vocabulary with approximately 20,000 words (about twice the US adult average).
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