Good for you! I hope you are&#x2F;have enjoying&#x2F;enjoyed it. I made some different choices (savings, but kids and mortgage). It&#x27;d be awesome to start a PhD but completely irresponsible of me as I&#x27;m the sole income provider for our family at present.<p>For now I content myself with following my fancies and working on digestible problems in my spare time (devoured ONAG a couple of years ago, graphs, sets, concrete mathematics... found Martin Gardner and enjoying devouring his recreational maths books). When I get the chance in my work I tend to enjoy the maths more than the programming... distributed systems, computer graphics, compilers. But most commercial programming is book keeping.<p>C&#x27;est la vie.