Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road- Elton John
I like that song.

I've been looking at possible paths after college.
There is basically the graduate school track, and the go to work track.
Within grad school, I could either get a Masters or a PhD.

Masters:
+ finish in 1-2 years
- have to pay for it, very expensive
looking at ~30-60,000 tuition + cost of living

PhD:
+ earn a little bit of money
- it's 4-5 years of research, bleh
- don't want to be in school that long
- i'm tired of school

Then the other thing to think about with any kind of graduate program is, you're paying a lot of money and taking out more loan, in order to get a degree to do something you don't even know if you want to do. In addition, I'd be limited to living in certain regions, i.e. cities, for work. So if I wanted to live in the middle of tooki tooki land I wouldn't be able to because there is no way I could find a job. And if I wanted to become a self sustaining human being and live off the fat of the land then I'd have to wait quite a while to pay back loans and have enough money to build an economically friendly geodome on a piece of land I'd have to buy.

Then there is the go to work track:
+ start working, get an idea of the workplace
+ start earning some money
- might not start with a very good salary
- might take a while to find a job that doesn't involve coding

Sooo everything has it's benefits and disadvantages.
Especially since I'm still trying to figure out my purpose.
I guess it's nice to have all of this free time to sit around and listen to music, and sleep in.
I really can't imagine having to get up every day to go to work.
It just seems like...'why?'
I guess financial obligations and responsibilities are why people do it. I'm not ready for capitalistic enslavement.