Im very interested to hear from both current phds and postdocs on this. I am currently doing a phd in feild x. I dont like working in this field very much and my experience of phd research should be enough to turn anyone off. But im determined that im not going to let this get me down. im just wondering if anyone thinks that doing and mphil in a feild of interest can help gain employment in that field? even if i obtain a phd that is not very applicable to this feild of research. i know it depends on just how far apart the fields but, im a mechanical engineer by backround and the feild i am interested in is a feild of engineering. any thoughts would be much appreciated