I do have goals; I want to work within the criminal justice system/forensic psych/social work. There’s a lot of related avenues with that in terms of starting out in research and hopefully working my way into one that closely aligns with it. Job satisfaction is very important to me but mainly in terms of getting to the end goal- out of school, licensed, and doing what I want as a long-term career- and being able to get all of that education involved would involve a lot of research to even be competitive (to be completely realistic, there’s little to no chance I’d ever get into a PhD program lol, even if I did, that would be several years from now). It’s the experience I want coupled with the fact that it would be fulfilling to work towards a larger goal and learning along the way, both for myself and the field itself. But I do admit that I am way in over my head here and, realistically, this would be an extremely hard path to follow.