Goal 1 done,

Goal 2: run 3 regressions and report

I've packed of hubs to the football, so I have 5 hours or so to get a load of analysis done and written up.

I've got my slippers on today so hopefully won't have cold feet!

Goal 1: Run VIF and Tolerance stats and write up.

I hate work! Good luck Emmaki :-)

I have responded 8-)

I reckon its probably 'bad form' to plagarise yourslef across different thesis chapters e.g. nick a paragraph from chapter 1 and re-state it exactly in the discussion.

But writing a publication paper FROM thesis content seems perfectly acceptable, I mean you're discussing the same work, why should you have to re-phrase? I know that in my field that journal editors have NO problem with thesis > publication plagarism, so I don't see why publication > thesis plagarism should be any different.

However publication 1 > publication 2 plagarism is not allowed.

i think its doodle lol.

http://www.doodle.com/

could you set up a moodle poll thing with a range of dates? is it moodle? the meeting thingy??

and then you could see when we're all available :-)

I've had two post doc interviews so far. I've lost out on both becasue I've not got the PhD yet - going up against people who have. BUT you never know who's applied AND you have got an interview!

The questions I have been asked are..

- tell me a bit about yourself (urgh!)
- why do you want the job?
- why do you want to work at [university x]
- what can you offer us (urgh!)
- what was your PhD about?
- what have you learnt from your PhD
- what are the 3 things your PhD has given you (same as above really)
- if you don't finish your PhD, how will you manage work and your PhD?
- what expereince do you have of publishing your work?

Just assume they have not even looked at your CV - as I'm sure they didn't in my case. Half way through one interview they said "so your PhD is mainly qualitative, you haven't got any quantitative skills" and I was like "erm, I TEACH stats to other PhD students and half my PhD is stats" (as they had only asked about the qualitative bits up until then!)

Good Luck!

ah Wal, you have exactly summed up my feelings on the matter! That is exactly why I would probably need the dole - because I'd rather get the PhD done and be able to walk into resaerch jobs as a dr. rather than someone saying "erm I'm going to finish....soon" - as I've already lost out on both jobs I've had interviews for because I'm not a Dr. and I've only got 1 publication - going up against people with 2 or 3 publications and the Phd finished.

Could you borrow money from family to make 85% up to 88%? It may make you better off in the long term.

Just remember to turn off the water and the gas. Do you know a nice neighbour you could leave a key with and your phone number in case they see anything 'suspicious'?

ooh £65 :-x

Maybe marry rich?

I'm quite tempted my dog sitting/walking. In my area people charge £10 for one dog to walk it for 45 mins. Now ifyou could do that for 3 or 4 dogs a day you'd be quids in and quite fit. A lot of people will pay £10 just for you to drop in and let their dog out for a wee in the middle of the day when they're at work.

You could try the 'academic writing' companies i.e. write essays for useless idiots who can't be bothered/lack the skill to write it themselves.

You could also tutor - not really an option as I'm psychology, so there's not much call for non maths/science/english based tutoring in my area.

Unless your uni has specific regulations about this, then you can definitely plagarise oneself. I am essentially putting my 3 publications in as chapters - I'm going to expand them, but not change them really, the wording will be identical in 90% of the chapter.

I went to talk recently on this.

You can plagarise from thesis - publication (as long as they're yours!)

But you cannot plagarise across publictions, e.g. I have 3 publications, which all require essentially the same introduction paragraph, but I'm going to have to re-phrase it if I want to publish all three papers.

Yeah job seekers is appealing, isn't it like £50 a week? If it means I qualify sooner, then its probably a better option.

I'm about to go to a temp agency - although I didn't want to do it too soon and then turn down work, because then they won't offer me anything when I do want it.

I've also thought about having a baby and getting state maternity pay :$ apparenty babies are free! (gift) although I think I'd have to wait 9 months for the payments to kick in.