ergophobe - 3:56 am on Mar 19, 2008 (gmt 0)

ronin, thanks for that counterpoint. I didn't want to sound negative, and I'm glad to see you take up the gauntlet.

And I didn't want to give a pat answer either or pretend that I'm personally good at knowing where to draw the line - I truly meant it when I said that figuring out if/when to quit at anything is really tough.

Businesses, marriages, degrees - people fail at all of these by giving up too early. But I bet everyone knows someone who should have gotten out of a bad marriage earlier. I know of people who spent over 20 years in grad school and had completely outdated and useless 3,000 page theses when they were done, which is a tragic waste of 20 years of evenings and weekends that could have been spent with family. Sunk costs can be other than money.

Three months out of the life of someone in his early twenties is nothing, so it totally makes sense for jleane... but it saddens me a bit that this seems to be the default advice that gets tossed out. In the meantime, I'm shopping for some new basketball shoes. I think that might make the difference for me.