There's no point in doing another PhD. You need to think outside the box. Apply for more postdocs, even if only slightly related to your field. I've seen loads of people switching fields after a PhD. Apply for postdocs in Europe.

She might have millions of dollars, but that's earmarked for other things, not to pay your salary.

I'm assuming you're from the US, so I'll mention this based on my experience there.

Yes, even techs in academic labs in university make $40-50k, so you are definitely being exploited. You can make about $60k in industry with a BSc... I'd go and look at industry jobs.

Or consider getting a PhD. Post docs start on ~$40k, but as I'm sure you're aware, you'll be on that for a number of years, have to move around, and may never get a permanent academic job.

Or talk to your boss and ask for a pay rise or if you can do a PhD there.

I don't work in social sciences, but this type of thing - doing the work and worrying about how to analyse it later - seems pretty normal to me. Not good, but normal.

I don't think you are supposed to have contact with your examiners post viva, except to confirm corrections, especially if it is your internal that is supposed to sign them off. This a a very busy time of year for academics due to all the exam marking, so you might not hear for another couple of weeks. I would chase it with your internal and supervisor and tell them the importance of it.

It's not just the external you have to wait for either. If you miss the June exam board at my uni, you won't be officially awarded the PhD until the next exam board in Sept/Oct.

You should also explain the situation to your expected employer. Can't they take you as a Research Assistant and then upgrade you to a Research Associate once you are awarded the degree? That's what's normally happens.

We are not going to be able to give you advice about unis we don't go to. Salford is not a fantastic uni if you believe league tables: https://www.theguardian.com/education/ng-interactive/2018/may/29/university-league-tables-2019

It's 88 out of 121 in the UK. It's not in the Russell group. But much depends on your supervisors as research area so it's hard to say how good it is.

If it's the only offer you have you may as well take it, especially if you are struggling to get others. Your PhD will be what you make it.

Have you tried relevant humanities societies if they exist? We have a lot of these in Science, like these:
https://www.rsb.org.uk/get-involved/grants/conference-grant.

Also, your uni may provide via an alumni fund? We can have up £500 each as current post grad students.

Not in the UK. There might be restrictions on some funding if you are looking for that.

Sorry you had a horrific experience. I did too. Took me a week to recover but 3 years on I don't even think about it, except to warn people to choose their externals with care! You'll be fine, take some time away from the thesis and then just bang out the corrections.

If you're depressed, are you able to make the decision about quitting?

I'm assuming you're not in the UK. In the UK you could downgrade to a MSc providing you had enough data and then write up your work in a thesis.

You should check on your department website or handbook.

About the same as you.. there's pros and cons of each so difficult to choose

Difficult to answer if you're in Singapore. As Bong said, you wouldn't need to repay in the UK, unless they paid you in advance, and even then I doubt they bother.