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Well, I do have two years' experience already. I'm hoping to stay at least a little employed in grad school, plus grad school itself counts for just a little.

I don't know where I'll specialize for certain right now, but I think I'm more inclined toward design, rather than implementation. AI or HCI work, most likely; a lot of geeks don't seem to understand how 'real' people work. I don't know why real people behave the way they do, but I do know how they behave and what they don't like about computers.

One thing I'm really interested in is expert system development... it relates to what I'm doing now. We'll see. At any rate, with a doctorate I can at least teach!

I'm more inclined toward design, rather than implementation.

An implementers' nightmare. A designer that hasn't done what they do. :-)

I don't mean to be flip about it. Quite the contrary. You're smart, and you'll do very well in whatever you choose to do.

Just don't get cocky. :-) I took a really cool class in Expert Systems when I was going for my MBA (no, I didn't finish it... long story). Had to develop an expert system. Was really cool. Had big fun doing it. Problem is... is that it is a really neat solution in search of a problem. It's now six or seven years later and still expert systems are very, very few and far between. I'm shocked, really.