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looby [Member] in response to: Post-doc

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:35:28 +0000

YAH: I enjoyed my subject long before the PhD, so my good life at the moment isn’t really a product of the PhD. It’s more to do with having a stable housing situation, a good relationship with Kirsty and the children, having someone to touch and kiss and hold (I cope very badly with being physically alone), and being able to get away with not doing much paid work.

SB: Thanks - I think it is the right decision, made freely. I can carry on as a sort of unofficial hanger on at Lancaster University anyway, should I wish (going to seminars etc).

TSB: I never want to wake up again, as I did for years, with the first words coming out of my mouth being “Oh fuck", at the prospect of going to my job. I know the way I live is a bit precarious but it suits me for the foreseeable future.

TwistedScottishBastard [Visitor] in response to: Post-doc

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:28:27 +0000

I’m a bit ambivalent about your PhD decision. I did my Masters when I was 47, and I would have really loved to go back and finish a Doctorate, but I didn’t have the time or the money.
I wouldn’t have done it for the kudos, but I just loved the life at University, and appreciated stretching my mind and discovering something anew, even having vague and slightly frightening fantasies about my supervisors.

But life goes on, and changes have to be accepted.
Welcome back to the life of a wage-slave; if not yet, then sometime soon I predict, no matter what you may feel at the moment, I can foresee the future, and old-age beckons and a rising need for security.
Maybe.
Hope it works out, and even hope that the Doctor with the tight skirt but disappointing arse wants you back for a private consultation to discuss matters other than alcohol or drug consumption. Take a condom just in case, she’ll appreciate your forethought.

smallbeds [Visitor] in response to: Post-doc

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:42:39 +0000

You don’t *have* to provide a rationale; but a blog is after all a place for rationales, and I appreciate that you decided to share yours. Even the bit about the cock.

Well done on making the decision, anyway. I’ve known people who’ve decided either way, and there’s pretty much no correlation in how happy they’ve ended up being in life. What seems key, I think, is making whatever decision you’ve made, for the right reasons.

(And a bit of luck helps too, so: may you have the best of that.)

young at heart [Visitor] in response to: Post-doc

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:21:22 +0000

mmmm…..you’ve obviously thought it through but nothing you say about doing the phd sounds negative, in fact it all sounds very positive: the social side, the supervisions, feeling joyous….. Could ‘But I’m having a good life now’ be anything to do with the direction your studying has given you??

looby [Member] in response to: Post-doc

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:31:27 +0000

You’re right UB. And in certain jobs I’ve had, I’ve done several years of that.

The Unbearable Banishment [Visitor] in response to: Post-doc

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:38:50 +0000

I don’t think you need to provide a rational to us or anyone else. Or yourself. If you don’t have the desire then that’s the end of that. Trying to manufacture enthusiasm for something you have no real interest in doing is poison for your soul.

looby [Member] in response to: Post-doc

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:29:36 +0000

Thanks - it is. It’s been bothering me for months. I can’t afford the fees, but even imagining that I could, I still don’t want to do it.

And I’m pretty good at finding uses for free time :)

ISBW [Visitor] in response to: Post-doc

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:23:54 +0000

Well done on having taken a decision. It must feel a huge relief. Don’t forget to enjoy the time you get back from it.