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yeah, I finished mine in 2021. It took me 5 years (had a year off for extenuating circumstances) 3 years of lab work + 1 year off + 1 year writing up. We didn'
by el_oni 3y ago
yeah, I finished mine in 2021. It took me 5 years (had a year off for extenuating circumstances) 3 years of lab work + 1 year off + 1 year writing up.
We didn't get any papers out during my actual time there, I wrote up a bunch of my results after i'd finished my viva and that got published in 2022 after I'd switched career tragecteries from science to software.
I'm incredibly lucky that my partner had a job that could make ends meet while writing up, and to find a company willing to take on a Chemistry PhD as a data engineer with no proven commercial experience.
My experience was a wild ride of high highs and crushing lows, I can't imagine doing that for over 7 years.
- iamflimflam1 3y agoMy one year of writing up was the hardest for me. I had an interesting job and was earning money that compared to my student grant was ridiculous. It was really hard to force myself to finish something that I quickly realised was not going to influence my career in any way. Though I was pretty much hired on the basis that I would have a PhD and the hirer (who had a PhD) took great pleasure in filling the company full of PhDs purely to annoy the CEO who had dropped out of his PhD...
- pvaldes 3y agoI feel like one stubborn unstoppable force of nature often. 17 years. Top that if you can. Yes, I survived. Shook off all the daggers in my back, like a dog under a garden hose, and keep walking my own path, as usually. And not, sometimes the problem is not the student.