I am an international student about to go through PhD candidacy confirmation. I have discovered that the methods I wanted to employ for my project won't work, and I need to learn a new discipline which I have always hated in order to give the data I have collected any meaning. I should have spotted this sooner. I don't want these skills, I'm not very happy here and I miss the research I was doing for my masters project. Should I quit and go home, and would anyone take me on for another start at a PhD?
My supervisor is very much of the "do what you must for the good of the project" school of thought. I have data from a technique that I am happy with (not the one I really wanted to use), but it is useless without the new discipline. He doesn't see this as a problem - he just wants the project to get an answer, but I'm worried about where a PhD involving this field could, or could not, take me.
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