Comment by cc101

I dropped out of Stanford in my senior year because I couldn't continue to ignore the negative effect that severe ADHD had on my classwork. While I did come back and graduate a few years later, my PhD ambitions were in ruins. While I spent over two decades working my way up to a junior research position, I never overcame my lack of graduate education. Perhaps I would have done better to re-asses my goals and select a new career, but my drive to overcome my feeling of failure by attaining my original goal got in the way of choosing a better course. You are right to give new thought to where you want your career to go.