well, if you don't apply you will definitely not get the job. Go for it :-)

Hey Cm30. I have met people doing 2nd PhDs, but I find it a bit pointless. With a PhD, you prove to academia that you can carry out a serious academic research from start to finish. Once you do that, you don't need to prove it again. Why not just do postdoctoral research or fellowships to continue with your career if you'd like to remain in research field?

If you want to pursue a completely different subject, then that might be different matter.

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My supervisor (also director of studies) left on my last funded year. I wasn't allowed to keep him as an external supervisor as I already had an external on board, and moving to his new university was not an option. So I looked for a suitable person to take over his role from my school. There wasn't anyone else in my subject (but I thought my external supervisor would fill this gap easily). I read everyone's research interests etc to find links and similarities at least, after talking to a few people I've found my new supervisor (not so new anymore as I couldn't finish writing-up on time). He is the best thing that happened to my research. The whole thing changed shape.
Maybe you can do a similar thing? Your supervisor doesn't have to be in the same subject area in my experience.
Good luck with your search.

grrrrrr how annoying to find out I am primitive. :-(

I tried. I'll try again tomorrow. Booohoooooo, why oh why?

maybe that's why people need partners, so when one draws a number 6 in the air, other rotates her foot in clockwise direction. :-)

aww satchi, sorry to hear that. Maybe you can imagine his hair falling off and count his hair as they drop to go to sleep?

lol Superman. I hope you are tipsy after a fun night, not because of too much data.

Good point actually. I'll see my optician asap (if I can get some time away from thesis).

Good luck with your twitch too :-)

:-) real nan, lol xx

I do all of those, apart from sleeping. That might be the case then.. hmm. Thanks for advice. Now please somebody kidnap the baby upstairs so I can sleep tonight
;-)

Thank you for the answers.
Ah it was gone for a bit, then I sneezed and now back to square one. Note to self, don't sneeze! :-)
Good advice re nutrition, eyesight and sleep. And yeah, as eskimo_sue says, it'll be worth it.

This is really really annoying. I developed twitching on one eye a couple of weeks ago and it's becoming a wee bit impossible to ignore so close to my thesis submission. I know it's temporary, but is there anything I can do to stop it sooner than later? I had eye twitches before, but they never lasted. Anyone else getting these? Any advice?

I try to avoid google when it comes to health as it tends to diagnose even the smallest finger-cut as cancer... and my motto usually is 'if you ignore, it'll go away'. But this time it isn't going away. So I thought I'd ask real people.
,-)

SLAAAAP!!!
ok now my turn, but I might need to be hit by a giant cartoon hammer.

they might be top expert in your field, but you are the top expert of your thesis. Nobody knows it as well as you do.

Also, if this helps, I once interviewed a "top expert" in my field, but he wasn't very good without his computer; in the end he had to reply to some of my questions after he returned to his office.

Good luck and congratulations for coming this far (up)

bump (in desperate need of inspiration) :-)

thank you Verypoor (I love the user name by the way ;-) )

Hey Catcat, I totally understand how you feel. When I started my PhD I was in the same situation. No matter how politely I explained my situation to the supervisor, he got very annoyed with me and he was very rude to me on his response. He was going on an on about how much time he spent arranging the funding for me, it was very childish and irresponsible of me to let him down like this etc etc. He even said he would tell this to everyone in the industry. I was very upset, but my tutor at the time comforted me saying these things always happen in the academia, and him getting annoyed with me like this was the childish attitude; would I want a supervisor like that anyway...

So my advice, be honest to him, be polite, but if you get a bad reply just put down to experience and enjoy the fact that you made a better choice.

Congratulations by the way for finding two places.

No, but I really admire people who can do that. I change my mind about everything everyday. One of the reasons why I'm doing a PhD... forcing myself to commit to something. I got used to being me, but a character like this isn't very good for relationships. Some days I feel so free because I don't care; some days I feel lost because I don't care... does it make sense?

If you do these lists from your heart, just enjoy it. But if you do them because of anxiety of future then it's worth taking a step back and ask questions to yourself. Nothing is mental, as long as you do it because it makes sense to you.