Some conversations that touch my nerves today

Things are rephrased:

1.) "My girlfriend likes me. If she wants someone richer, she could have gone for a long time. And she knows that I won't be able to make much in the coming years" an master student said, who wants to do PhD.

2.) A Prof said, "Working in psychology in academia requires you to be able to work the place that offers you a job. The first 6 years would be very tough and many people have difficulty in balancing other aspects of life. One might spend a year or two into a research that turns out to be totally in vain. It's your interest in the field that sustains you from the intense workload and stress."

3.) Another Prof said, "1300 (in GRE) ? 600 in verbal (total is 800) is like the true minimum. The analytical questions are simply no-brainer (which implies 1400 out of 1600 is true minimum)!"

Adding all 3 conversations together, I said to myself, "why on earth am I trying to do something that's so difficult, also so low in return, as well as extremely high in workload and stress? Is it really worthy?"