[ringtonesmannq]

Hi, Nathan. The idea that you have "not suffered enough" is a wrong turn. At the same time, the idea of suffering is simply a vehicle for directing us toward ethical behavior. In the end, that is what all religion is aimed at. If you feel you have not suffered much, fine. Nothing wrong with that. If you feel that not a lot of tragedy of unpleasantness has befallen you, that is okay, too. That is largely a matter of chance.

You can see that there are detrimental effects when greed, anger or hatred, and delusion arise in a person, and I presume that you can see that following the noble eightfold path: right view, intention, speech, action, livelihood, effort, concentration, and mindfulness, can lessen and quench the arising of ignorance, greed, anger. What is left to do is to cultivate that.

Head-tripping about "I have not suffered enough to [deserve...?] an end to any suffering is just that: head-tripping. Perhaps a good course would be to work on the quenching of the arising of such thoughts, such distractions. The Buddha called such things "papanca", mental proliferations.

Suffering according to the Buddha is our reactions to unpleasant experience rather than unpleasant experience itself. Many times, people suffer over the smallest things. No need to go out and suffer.

Pursue your education, by all means. You can never underestimate its value -- and monetary terms are the least of it.