Hi! I'm currently (next year) getting my Master's in econometrics. I got my Bachelor Econometrics almost cum laude (7.95). My thesis was on using computational linguistics (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) to extract information from financial transcripts, which was cool. Do you feel like your PhD has been 'worth it'? I've been struggling with this question if I want to do a PhD. I have always loved academia and learning new things but I dont see really myself with a career in academia, maybe as a backup plan (how stupid that might sound).

Sorry for bothering you!