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Is an extra degree worth the cost?

There is this university Ph.D program that I really want to follow.
I already have a Ph.D and was recognized with a Honorary Doctorate Degree as well for my work in hormonal cancer research.
I even get to give lectures as a professor starting from end of September.
Isn't it a bit silly to seek out an extra degree?

While one could say that I have studied enough and earned enough degrees during my life , there is this university program I can't get out of my head.

Cost £10k.

I am at a crossroads here.

Do or don't.

You always have to calculate your return on investment.

I'm scared to admit that I'm too old to spend £10k on a degree and expect decent ROI.

I am not even guaranteed a higher salary after this degree because if you already have a Ph.D and substantial work experience, that extra degree might be looked at as "filler".

I don't know.

Worth the jump?

Can't stop thinking about how badly I want it.

Those £10k were actually money I saved up for a breast augmentation and here I am considering to throw it at an exciting degree program and staying with what nature gave me in the bossom department.

Urgh .
Decisions.
Sometimes you wish there was money for both.
Especially at my age.
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Do you want to impress prospective employers? if so, maybe.

Competency will get you a job in technology if you keep going and can prove you know your shit for us STEM interested types Especially if you can get along with people.

A lot of Technologist can't

The trouble is just that the IT industry thrives off Certs and Degrees, in other words you might be able to find a back door if you know the right people into the space and can network well and have contributions up on Github and such but it's obviously an open piece of wisdom that the Certs while not ABSOLUTELY necessary look good on a Resume and are a way to at least get the interview in the first place, which is hard enough.

Basically sometimes a Degree is only a way of shoving your foot in the door so that Recruiters will TALK to you in the first place.

Also I would advise you it's never too late to make something of yourself so long as you're not dead. So put aside the guilt.