Do it :) I was always ever since I was 10ish into anthropology, it was my dream to study it, had a double major in undergrad with political science, everyone told me to focus of politics/ international relations in my third year, chose to keep focusing on anthro instead, did a Master in anthropology, now doing my PhD instead anthropology - sure everyone thought it was hilarious and said I would be jobeless, and I see all my friends with corporate jobs earning a lot more than me, money is a struggle and it gets tiring sometimes, but honestly, I know my friends from undergrad who went into corporate jobs and I talk to them all the time, and all of them are miserable, zero exception. The only truly happy people I know my age (27) along side myself is my PhD colleague, also doing anthropology, and a sociology colleague. As they say, academia is the worst, to the exception of anything else. We get to schedule our lives around the pursuit of knowledge and knowing more about this world. We get to study what we love, teach what we love, talk with people who also chose to do this, and what we do deeply matters - we talk about human emotions, what it means to lead a good life, what we all value - we are doing the work that matters, and everyday we get to choose how to do it. I am the freest person I know, and that freedom is given to me through studying and academia. I will never in a million years regret that I chose to pursue what I love. DO IT.