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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BreakfastGirl · 36-40, F

@tallpowerhouseblonde
Both are for myself and would heighten my personal satisfaction.

Plus of doing the 2nd Ph.D is chance to get a Ph.D from a prestigious university. My 1st Ph.D was from a local university with no real fame outside of the town I live in.
I think it bothers me that my Ph.D is from a less well known university and that getting another one will make up for that.

I just feel crazy for putting in £10k in what will in the end be a piece of paper and a title.

Breast augmentation will give me more confidence in my own body.
I have a C-cup now which is okay but not wow.
At my age it would be great to have a great set of knockers to show off at the beach, instead of regular a dime a dozen breasts like now.

I wish I had money for both :-(

Tracos · 51-55, M

@BreakfastGirl C is perfect in my eyes ;)

tallpowerhouseblonde · 31-35, F

@BreakfastGirl It sounds like you know what you want already.C cup is okay but going up to say DD will look fantastic especially if you want to go topless or sunbathe naked on a beach.You already have a degree so best to go in a different direction and get augmentation.You will need a reputable surgeon you can trust.They should be able to bring in a woman that has had augmentation done by them so you can see and feel what breasts with implants are like.It will hurt for a long time after surgery but once everything has settled you will really fill out a skimpy bikini.

BetweenKittensandRiots · 36-40, MVIP

@BreakfastGirl Personally very different metrics are becoming very obvious as far as evaluating a potential romantic partner on my part I keep hearing men are attracted to beauty and women to success but it's too vast of an over simplification like Beauty is nice to look at but to rely on it is a fools errand and if you want to be miserable as a man just marry a pretty woman who doesn't deserve to be pretty and if there were a just god would have beaten with an ugly stick but somehow he failed to do the right thing.
I get scolded and talked back to on here sometimes and it's like you must think you're talking to literally any other man because personally I love myself far too much to even pine for the affections of someone who treated me like I was out of their league and they were too good for me.

IF people really knew why I fell for Lyssa in the first place they'd maximize for other traits.

Kind, more merciful than even me, talks me down from my worst instincts when people hurt me, strategic, careful measured, Intelligent, extremely empathetic and the beauty I tend to hoard the most as far as those I keep closest to me is not outer but Inner.

It's why the shape of my actual struggles with the opposite sex look like they do like having ended up with the Spineless one who's real intent was not to hurt anyone so strongly she ended up hurting EVERYONE because unfortunately that's how things go with monogamy, when there can only be one winner.

Funny how I swung after that to a Polyamorous partner, I think part of me kind of knew if i could tell her I would have said hey it's not me that is trying to force a choice on you, I don't care so long as you actually like me.

But things happened and we are where we are now, Lyssa is pretty but honestly it was every other fact about her that did this to me.

Viper · M

@BreakfastGirl C cups are pretty damn sexy as is!

I think you just need someone that can help you love what you got, other wise you might upgrade, and still feel left out and not loving what you got, despite the upgrade