I am doing a masters and am seriously thinking about turning down my funded offer of a phd for october because i have been so utterly misrable this year. there are jobs out there. have you spoken to your careers service? i just think that the vast majority of the population get jobs with out a phd and so many phds go into teaching after anyway! so what is the point if you don't want to be an academic? honestly everyone who knows how unhappy i have been is encouraging me to quit and it is only those in my department who keep telling me to stay because they can't see outside their bubble of academia. life is too short to be so unhappy. i feel so scared, but the thought of leaving makes me feel free and happy for the first time in years.

I think it might depend on why you got the 2ii. I have just secured a funded PhD place at one of the top universities in the country with a 2ii plus masters in a science subject. They said that they weren't worried about the 2ii because i have such good references. Although I applied to a couple of places of similar ranking and heard nothing back. maybe it just depends on if there are internal candidates or not.