Some advice needed

Bailo · February 16, 2006

Basically, the last 1 1/2yr of my PhD has gone s****ly, nothing worked, wasted 3 months in the USA only for the tool we were using to turn out as poorly made, came home and had even more disasters with my bacteria not growing etc etc. To top this off, I'm not getting on with my supervisor one bit, we clash regularly and I hate her f***ing guts to be honest. She's a know-it-all, lying, two-faced power-tripper, which I've been able to stand for a year, then it got too much for me.

My current bit of work looks like it's going t*** up as well as some collaborators have f***ed me around as well, so I'm thinking: I have 10 months left before I have to write up and not much to write up. Do I quit now, write up as a Masters and enrol on the PGCE course I've got my eye on or do I stick it out?

Pros for staying: Get a PhD, make parents v happy, don't get the feeling I'm a failure, don't let all this s*** beat me

Pros for leaving: Gets me into teaching earlier without wasting another year, don't have to worry about writing up a patchy thesis, don't have the stress of my supervisor or regular 8am-10pm days plus weekends.

Really at a low point right now, tired, stressed and angry, but I've seen some decent advice given through here so thought I'd give it a go!

I'm 23 BTW.

February 16, 2006

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