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Were we seperated at birth? In an exactly identical situation!!!
Really disillusioned y'day and was really tempted to get ballistically plastered, but a clear head today and while still in the fire, decided to turn it around, even at this late stage! Could have spent today moaning and face-booking/youtubing but just sat down, wrote up a plan to get a pivotal paper (my first - yikes!!!!) out the gap. I always thought I needed my supervisors approval but you know what ... its our work and if we have to pi$$ off a few people, so what! They are paid enough and its not as if half of them give a toss!
Had a meeting yesterday and after the supervisor said "what would you do if you had to quit?" I bluntly told him "There is f**k all out there!". We are like Vikings who have burnt the ships on the shore ... so I think its about time that we fought like people with nothing to lose. Sorry for the analogy and rant, but really feel like getting a battle axe at times :-s That said, started looking up some alternatives ... always good to have the escape raft.
One question that always perplexes me though ... when (which we will) get our PhD's, will we turn into those supervisors from hell??? Is there a specific course for that or is it just a case that the academic world weeds out the conscientious people who basically forgot that we are basically on subsistence wages and not here for the fun of it!
Bonzo, mi man, can really relate to your post. Nice poetic analogy too. I wonder if I will turn into an awkward supervisor? Like you say, there is, for the most part, no point in quitting as there is frig all else - and that's what keeps me going. Even though my PhD has cocked up my life in quite a few ways, made me deeply cynical and sometimes depressed, I think 'screw it', and 'don't quit!' As Olivia says 'hang in everyone' because, sorry to sound cliched there are always gping to bad times as well as good times.
