>>13536903No, do what you want anon. If you enjoy it, and it fulfills your life then there is no need to leave it behind you. Doing so, as well, will invalidate all the time and effort you put in to acquire that degree.
>I suspect I'm nowhere near as smart as my peers I work along side, or my wife who is a physicist finishing her PhD.Who gives a fuck, IQ is a fucking meme, intelligence is so fucking malleable that there isn't one thing that can signify it. However, I shall yields upon you a small piece of advice I've been following, it's simply this, think. Think about everything, if you think you've thought enough, you haven't. Always be considering the task at hand, the task that you've just put behind you, and the task you've yet to conquer.