Zutterfly, I got rejected after 2.5 weeks :( I've asked for feedback from the professor but I'm not expecting a response. I've had another interview since then too, I'm waiting to hear back, I would be very surprised if I was offered it though.

You may get a response, it's the start of the academic year and so really busy. I never received a decision on one so I rightly assumed I was unsuccessful (for a lecturing position) but the professor got back to me after about 2 months. I discovered that I had got to the final few people when they were shortlisting which boosted my confidence so that was good.

You are doing well to be getting interviews Hugh :) I just applied to another teaching job and was mindful of feedback from previous posts I applied to. Hopefully we will find something soon!

Best of luck! I just received feedback for the interview I had this week. They were lovely and said I performed excellently at the interview, but there was someone who had direct experience of the job with stakeholders and therefore had more of an edge. I was just glad to hear something positive, and didn't feel sad about being rejected :)

That's awesome :) Yes its just a case of keeping on trying, getting feedback, applying it where possible, and trying again! We will find something eventually.

How is everyone going? For those who were submitting, did it all go okay?

I'm a bit distracted this week as it is my final week of clinical placement, after three years of being an intern!! Very exciting and will be great for thesis progress, but have had a lot of work to finish for that eating into thesis time. I also stupidly thought it would be fine to host my husband's 30th birthday party at home two days after I finish and invite my mum to stay with us so she can join, so I've had to set aside Friday to do all the housework I've been neglecting...

Well I have just had a 100 minute meeting where we went through Chapters 1-6 in depth but still have 7 & 8 to go through. Lots of editing required. Lit review chapter is the one that needs the least-barely any so that's good. Other chapters need reorganisation and I now need to probably structure my thesis in three sections on top of the chapters:

Section 1-Cp 1-3 Intro, Lit Rev, Methods
Section 2 -Data Chapters 4,5 & 6
Section 3- Overall Discussion and Conclusion

Some other stuff as well -no mention of submission in 3 months (sigh).

Good news today, I went to the hairdressers and have absolutely fantastic hair at the moment, much good may it do me.

I have completed editing and proofing the majority of my appendices and I am aiming to finish them by the end of next week before giving the whole thesis a final read before it goes to my sup. I am also presently applying for jobs, but I have had a horrible cold for two days and I think I may have to take it easy over the weekend!

I am happy that you have nice new hair Pjlu ;) I really nee mine sorting but I think that will be my 'reward' when I had it to my sup. I can at least not think about my thesis for a short while then :)

I am happy that you have nice new hair Pjlu ;) I really nee mine sorting but I think that will be my 'reward' when I had it to my sup. I can at least not think about my thesis for a short while then :)[/quote]

Thanks Zutterfly :). I think the hair was the only thing that really worked well yesterday. Today the cider has worn off and I am looking realistically at my work plan and changes and accepting that again (sigh) as with the Masters thesis-"it is going to take as long as it takes". I'm well within my part time time frame so I can hardly complain.Good luck with your plans and hope the cold doesn't hang around too long.

Hi, how is everyone doing?

Today is not a good day. I was editing one of my papers (i.e. a results chapter for my thesis) and feeling like it was all a bit crap, and also feeling like my supervisor's advice on the approach is not sound, but I haven't had any success convincing her otherwise. I was trying to tell myself that probably everyone feels this way about their thesis at this stage, and that I'm not the right person to judge it as good/bad right now.

Then I got slammed with an email saying that another paper that is meant to be in my thesis was rejected by a pretty crappy domestic journal (its fourth rejection) with one reviewer and editor suggesting the whole paper is flawed and the data needs to be re-analysed from scratch. So even though I know that reviewers can be wrong, it just feels like objective proof that my research is rubbish.

I. Just. Want. To. Be. Done. I'm supposed to submit at the end of next month but it's feeling really impossible now. It was feeling hard enough just getting all the writing/editing done, I definitely don't feel like there is enough time to re-do a study - but what if my examiners have the same opinion of paper as all the people who have rejected it now?

Just trying to put one foot in front of the other and not get too overwhelmed with the enormity of what still needs done, Hugh! How are you doing?

Teegs, sorry to hear about the feedback you got from the journal. What do your supervisors think about the suggested re-analysis? I'm sure your research is very far from rubbish, but it always feels like a bit of a gamble as to whether examiners will agree with your approach or not - so much of this process is down to different opinions that it's not surprising it chips away at our confidence!

Btw, is anyone else getting increasingly ratty with relatives saying, 'we must arrange to do something/come and visit before Christmas' etc? I don't need the nearness of Christmas pointing out to me at this stage, thanks :p

These 5 words describe me. I am at the end of my tether now. Just can't wait for it all to be over, though even I submitted today, it'd be months before I'd actually really be finished.

I'm still waiting to hear back from my primary supervisor, and am just have my fingers and toes crossed that she doesn't feel this needs to change the submission plan. My other supervisor has just gone on maternity leave and unfortunately she has the expertise for this paper (it's a qual study). If I did need to re-analyse the data, I would either need to wait till she is back in April, or get the uni to organise an alternate supervisor for me and start from scratch with them, neither option sounds very appealing to me! I'm not at all interested in a career in academia, so passing my thesis is really my only goal.

DEFINITELY! I really don't want to know. Last years Christmas parties with friends/family were a bit stressful for me ("Are you STILL studying?" "Shouldn't you be finished by now?") and I vowed that by Christmas 2016 I would have submitted so I could tell everyone I was finished. It's been a helpful goal to keep me motivated for most of the year, but now it is just stressing me out given it is just around the corner...