My 'other' life was going to be as a professor of Philosophy....as I was going thru graduate school, I happened to attend the annual APA (Amer.Phil.Assoc.) meeting (1969, I think). One of the things they do there is interview for jobs. I was not being interviewed, but I heard the statistics....there were 85 or so positions listed..... and 1200 applicants. I was a 'good' student, but not an excellent student, and it was obvious they simply didn't need many philosophers.

Would I have been a better student if I hadn't gotten married at 19 and had to work more than study? **shrug**...maybe..

If I had known I had a talent for woodworking before I was 50....might have been different...