FabSwingers.com forum: More of a rant

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Can't figure out what to do I have a decent job in a very good company but my old tutor from uni rang me yesterday and offered me a fully paid PhD placement and it's driving me nuts trying to figure out what to do my head says work heart says PhD any advice?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If can live on the money from phd and it's something that interests you go for it .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You're 25

Go for the Phd whilst you aren't burdened by the responsibilities that middle age is likely to bring

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Problem is I could just about afford to do the PhD but I'd have to stop doing a lot of things to survive financially

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Write a list of the pros and cons. It might help to see it in black and white x

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By *eanutButterJellyTimeCouple
over a year ago

the middle of the world

do the Phd. there'll be loads of time later to make up for the sacrifices you make while doing it.

It's unlikely you'll EVER get another chance, and if you don't do it now, you'll always regret it.

Listen to Auntie Lynn...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Would having the PhD make you any of the following;

Happier

more employable

financially secure

intellectually satisfied

better able to do your job

more flexible?

Would it bring opportunities you currently do not have?

Yes?

Do it. Money is not everything.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Go for it, cos if you don't you may regret it in later life.

Trust me from someone who knows.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

"Problem is I could just about afford to do the PhD but I'd have to stop doing a lot of things to survive financially "

How would you feel if somebody said that you couldn't do the PhD? Relieved or a bit disappointed. In twenty years time when you (possibly) have teenage kids and loads of other responsibilities will you think "phew I'm glad I didn't do that PhD now that it would be so much more difficult or even impossible" or will you regret doing it......in the end you don't really know. I'm all for following your heart.

Good luck, whatever you decide.

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By *erbyDalesCplCouple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

"Write a list of the pros and cons. It might help to see it in black and white x"

This

Then toss a coin.

Heads phd, tails work.

The feeling you get when you see what the coin says will tell you how you truly feel about it - then go with that feeling.

Works every time.

(I first did this after reading Diceman: after I had done best of 3, then of 5, then of 7, I realised that my subconscious was telling me something)

Best of luck

Mr ddc

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Go with your gut feeling

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'd have loved to have done a PhD, but I wasn't in a "useful" discipline so no funding available. I'm now on the career-mortgage-responsibilities treadmill and can't see a time I won't be in the foreseeable future, so if you can do it, I think you should!

Would there be opportunities for bits and pieces of work here and there to help with the money side of things if you were doing the PhD? Tutoring, even exam invigilating, things like that?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You're asking some randoms on the Internet, about your career/academic decisions?

Right

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By *erbyDalesCplCouple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

"You're asking some randoms on the Internet, about your career/academic decisions?

Right "

Oi! I'm not a random!

Besides, asking is different to doing what the randoms say.

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By *trawberry-popWoman
over a year ago

South East Midlands NOT

Do the PhD. Make a few sacrifices, it will be worth it in the long run.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"You're asking some randoms on the Internet, about your career/academic decisions?

Right "

You're commenting on some randoms on the internet making decisions that have no relevance to your life just to be cynical?

Right

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By *qua vitaeWoman
over a year ago

Shropshire/Midlands

"Problem is I could just about afford to do the PhD but I'd have to stop doing a lot of things to survive financially "

Are you able to do it part time? I believe you can do a PhD up to 6 years.

Will it benefit your career prospects more than it is now?

I would love to do one too, if only just to get letters in front of my name!

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