Dear John
Do you advise everybody to go and do a law degree, since that is something else you decided was the best course of action?
Surely you accept that everybody has different circumstances, different opportunities, different abilities.
Therefore it is beyond rational argument to insist that only one course of action is correct for everybody.
This is an unassailable truth. For some people here, not doing a law degree and staying with VFP may be the very best option. You cannot say, same as you cannot say what form of saving or home ownership, or vehicle, or clothing, is "best" for everybody here.
I wish you could see that. People do not disagree with individual scenarios; people disagree that there is only one course of action and if you do not follow it, then you are deficient.
The above is my entire position. I maintain that it is "FUD" to subject everybody to a Cultural-Revolutionistic barrage of warnings and exhortions to conform, fit in, agree... or lose out.
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1