I'm not quite with you here. Do you mean 3 years playing in pub sessions, or 3 years working/playing in pubs? Of course it all depends what a "career" in folk music means. It quite possibly means being a musicologist, teaching the subject in schools, doing research, setting up recordings, producing - and/or playing. I think I'd opt for the degree which, even if it's ostensibly in "folk music", can be adapted for other things and areas of knowledge. After all, one has to live...
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