As an IT major, I decided not to go to any grad school

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IT is not my thing, by any stretch of the imagination, but I have always had the impression that it's difficult enough to learn the fundamentals of a bunch of languages but you have to quickly go beyond that, don't you?  Then you have to keep current in some languages, at least to some extent, and then be prepared to learn new ones on demand.  I can see why other academic pursuits might just seem to get in the way.  I think some Math/Physics people feel the same way.