James Tyler Kan says he could use some advice. He has a master's in linguistics and is partway through a PhD in the same subject. Do you think it would be unwise to leave my current PhD to go after a second master's? I always address questions like this with a great deal of trepidation because advice is impossible to give for career choices such as these. Samuel Benjamin: You really need to be passionate about what you're diving into. A PhD is a lot of your life. It's just even if it's just five years. That's a significant fraction of your life and certainly a lot of work and angst along the way. So anyway, that's