Yes.

Careful Labmonkey. Apparently on the forum unless you find your PhD some sort of 3-4 year torture other members just aren't interested. Enjoy doing a PhD ..pah!!

I found that I really enjoy my PhD when I'm progressing and getting data which will contribute to my thesis and makes me feel that I'm achieiving. This is obviously not all the time, in fact quite rarely. Moreover, it has turned out that this didn't really happen at all in the first 7 months of my project.

Rose tinted glasses? Apparently you didn't enjoy the job as much as you thought as you left it to do a PhD for some reason.

I had a friend with whom I was at university and his father was involved in recruitment. He was told, by his father, to go to a uni at the top of the tables. His father's reasoning was that as a man involved in filing through CVs for jobs he would just look at the Times top 10 and anyone not from one of those unis went to the bottom of the pile. Take from that what you will...... That may not be totally representative of all employers but I'm sure a large portion do work like that.

Are you a serial qualificationer?

Stick with it. I'm not saying it isn't shit I just think that it's worth the sacrifice. In two years it will all be over but you will have completed it forever.

Jesus Pea, where did you learn french!

Or they just think that they're working hard so that must be the way it's done all the time. They were right, everyone else who isn't working 75 hour weeks is wrong. Something like that if I recall too.

Hmmmm, I suppose that sounds like something I might have said. What's wrong with it though?

No, I don't do any work as my stipend is plenty for me to live on. This is strange guys, a few months ago I got an ear-bashing on a thread because I suggested that it is possible to proceed at a fair pace doing 9-5, i.e. a normal 40 hour week, obviously from time to time you'll run late or have to pop in the odd weekend. According to the quite rude people on that thread I didn't have a clue what I was talking about as I wasn't doing a 60+ hour week. Good to see I'm not the only one who isn't mental witht the hours.

I do a science PhD at a good university: 9-5.

A-grade banter!

I'm talking about Saiful's reply. It's a joke.

I think Golfpro, in all his wisdom, may have missed a little funny made there in the first reply.....

This seems quite a lazy way to go about getting to do a PhD. Maybe a little self done research would help...

Are you guys seriously annoyed by all this?