I'm tired pubski. I feel like I've taken a very big bite of the world and my jaws are struggling to close around it. I'm starting to reach the tipping point where I have to make a decision about grad school. Do I want to take another year to get more experience in the field? Or try to shift directly back into academia? Do I stay in the states or pursue my international options? Not to be too crunchy granola about it I need to do a lot of soul searching very quickly.
How about an ask hubski post to help you decide. Ask: Why did you go to graduate school? What's a good reason to go to graduate school? What's bad reason to go to graduate school? (Answer: to make your parents happy, because your parents told you to, etc along those lines.) What's the best state of mind to start grad school? The tag could be #gradschool. I know why I went. Why do you want to go?
Go to grad school ASAP unless your daily routine is more intense than the worst crunchtime you remember from undergraduate.
In addition, grad school is much harder after you've gotten used to being able to negotiate or flat out refuse when your work load gets excessive. There aren't many perks to industry over academia, but being able to say "this is bullshit, I need to sleep sometime" is a big one.