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haha I know what you mean about motivation - I'd have thought I would be really pushing to get it done now, but I've taken over an hour out today to watch downton abbey, phoned my parents, talked to other people. I've sat for the last hour working on my lit review, but I'm bored. I really need to delete massive sections from it, but everything seems too important to chuck!

oh and I have printed out the entire thesis and am working on it in a ring binder - I'll change everything this week and then print it out again and go through it again, possibly once more after that too. That's what we did with hubster's and it didn't have ANY typos in it (up)

I enjoyed a lot of my PhD - basically the working from home bit - I can go out at any time of the day without people nagging, although I do have to get work done. However, my hate of the PhD really kicked in when I had a load of non-PhD work suddenly piled on and the writing up has become unbearable. WHen you've had your worked ripped to pieces 20 times only for it to make its way back to your original version, it gets slightly tedious and soul destroying. So I did like my PhD - now I want to burn everything to do with it and sod the carbon footprint that horrible bonfire will create :-s

Good thing is is that I WILL be submitting soon and this nightmare will be over - only to start the next of REF submissions!!

how do you get over the afternoon slump? I had a massive pasta dish for lunch and the only thing keeping me awake is my cold feet :-(

tbh, I'm not so sure about the part time thing. Fair enough - if he loved his subject, but if he isn't keen on it anyway, it could be a horrible, demoralising thing to lug around with you - trying to use your precious spare time to go back to the project you hate isn't a fun thing to do on the weekend when you've been working hard all week.

If he's close to finishing, I'd say, grit his teeth - get it done, but if he's got a fair way to go then I'd call time and take the job. BUT it all depends on individual circumstances. No doubt he WILL get a job after the PhD if he so wishes, and likewise, the job could fall through at any stage given the market, or might not be what its cracked up to be. I think it just depends on what his end goals are.

Its great to see you around Wal, a friendly bearded face is what we need :-)

Are you going to be trying to publish your PhD work? (if not already) or is it non-academia from here on in?

Hi All, had a busy morning. Just had convo with sup who has decided to re-write my last chapter as a publication so she can understand it better - erm now really isn't the time, surely!?

Main aim for today is to read through at least 2 chapters and cut them down, sort out typos etc. I also have to practice a lecture for tomorrow and put at least an hour into creating a new lecture.

hmm, I think maybe its the clothing - I find I get Id'd when I'm out in joggers and a hoody, but not when I'm in something 'smart' -(when I say smart, I mean jeans - I'm a proper student lol)

we got hubs' supervisor a bottle of courvosier (sp??) brandy stuff. It was reasonably amusing as we BOTH got asked for IDs in the supermarket for it. I'm not completely sure that anyone planning on underage drinking is going to spend £30 on 1 bottle of brandy!

I don't know what to get mine - maybe some kind of apt print framed?

urgh I'm working so slowly today. Its cold and I'm feeling sleepy. I've read through chapter 1. All I can think is that I'm pretty non-plussed on the whole thing. I have NO idea whether it reads well or badly, my sup has knocked every tiny bit of confidence out of me.

its in a title, so I have to have the : straight after the U.K.

I prefer UK, but sup has gone through entire thesis demanding U.K. instead :-s

If I want to put a colon after U.K.

Is it

U.K.:

or

U.K:

??

Or something different?

yes, as below, would depend on what motivates him, what he wants to achieve. My hubby insists his PhD was a waste of time, as he's gone into an organisation at the same level he would have done after his MSc and actually works with people he taught, when they were doing their MScs, therefore, he has lost out (in his eyes) on several years of employement, where he could have been climbing the ladder.

However, if your friend is going into an industry where PhDs are the norm, then maybe it is necessary and he would regret leaving it later? I am sure my hubs wouldn't have the skills, confidence or ability to work in his current work without his PhD - and many have PhDs in his work team, so its given him a bit of validation.

too busy, but not enough motivation for PhD!

I have 2 lectures to plan, 2 seminars to plan (all from scratch i.e. no slides!), 8 dissertations to mark and I have to read my thesis, edit (because apparently my sup thinks its too long at the front - maybe that is because my supervisor told me to MOVE EVERYTHING TO THE FRONT! :-s ) and I have to write my discussion chapter by next friday!!!!

So goal 1 today is to read through intro chapter and jot down any notes for changes/things I need to feed through to the discussion

oh Delta, I think we are two peas in a pod :p. I yearn for some kind of validation, just a small "I think this is a good piece of work" would make me feel better. But everything my sup says is tinged, by my awareness that she has not read any of it/in enough depth. :-s

I'm up early today because I have my 1st lecture to do with a new group and I'm nervous - particularly about setting up the technical stuff as there seems to be little tech help - so if it fails, it fails :-(

GOals today:

- walk the dog
- change ppt slides slightly
- do analysis
- do lecture
- meet 2 students
- finish off lecture for next week and upload