I've committed the next five years of my life to learning how to do a very specific thing, and now I can't help but mourn the fact that my obligations will make it very difficult (impossible?) for me to travel/play/sleep as much as I'd like.
I suppose that's why people tell you to travel and enjoy life when you're young, before life's commitments catch up with you.
The problem is that this in my mind, this "freedom" is somewhat of a myth. Observe the graph below (note: This is fairly representative of my life... it may be different for others, I suppose.):
As you can see, my free time drops with each degree I pursue, until you get hit the depressing low point which is going to be my next five years of residency. You'll also notice that my job security has been doing the exact opposite.
There lies the rub. When I have the most free time, I don't have the future job security to enjoy it, so I have to spend my free time doing things like studying to ensure that I will have better security in the future.
And now, I'm looking at enjoying the most job security I'd ever had, yet I'll have no time whatsoever to enjoy it.
Does this make sense?
At least I don't live in Hong Kong. My poor little cousins there study harder in primary school than I ever have.
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