political science? Economy?
Your heading for one boring life.
Look at it this way... I make less then a dollar an hour, and on call 24/7, wake up at 5AM and get off work at 6-7PM, and I'm spending the best years of my life tracking beads of sweat down my back.
9 dollars is good (it really is), 6 isnt that early, and it last... a month or two? Bite the bullet, save the cash, and get hammered like the rest of us working men.