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hmpf(Well, okay, maybe nobody is wondering about this, but just in case:)
Will I expand my M.A. thesis into a Ph.D. thesis?
Short answer? No.
Reasons:
1.) I've spent the past thirteen years living on a shoestring budget in a shared flat; I feel I'm ready to graduate to a slightly less financially and spatially restricted situation. (Of course, for the time being I'm jobless, and so I'm still poor and living in a shared flat - but I'm an optimist: I assume this situation is temporary.)
2.) I'm nearly 33. Doing a Ph.D. would add another three or four years to the age at which I could hope to first enter the 'job market' (I hate that phrase). This would probably negatively impact my chances of finding a job, which aren't that great to begin with. The three letters to attach to my name would probably not really help either, and might even be a hindrance.
3.) On my personal list of priorities, uni stuff was always, at best, a distant second or third to writing and other kinds of creative endeavours; now that I've discovered I want to do my part to save the world, uni stuff has been downgraded to fourth or so. You can't do a Ph.D. if you're only willing to grant it fourth priority - and a distant fourth at that, behind things as time-consuming as writing, making jewellery, and saving the world.
4.) I would have to get a job anyway, because my parents aren't going to support me any longer, so I would have to do the Ph.D. 'on the side' - and I'm a low-energy person, my life broke down completely even while I was doing 'only' my M.A. and working a measly 10-hours-per-week job. With a full-time, or nearly full-time job *and* a Ph.D. thesis to write, I'd go mad. Or at least starve, for want of time to eat; and probably forget the face of every friend I ever had. Not to mention that I'd have to give up all my 'hobbies' which, as I described in 3.), are really the most important things in my life.
Damn, now I've burned my dinner.
Will I expand my M.A. thesis into a Ph.D. thesis?
Short answer? No.
Reasons:
1.) I've spent the past thirteen years living on a shoestring budget in a shared flat; I feel I'm ready to graduate to a slightly less financially and spatially restricted situation. (Of course, for the time being I'm jobless, and so I'm still poor and living in a shared flat - but I'm an optimist: I assume this situation is temporary.)
2.) I'm nearly 33. Doing a Ph.D. would add another three or four years to the age at which I could hope to first enter the 'job market' (I hate that phrase). This would probably negatively impact my chances of finding a job, which aren't that great to begin with. The three letters to attach to my name would probably not really help either, and might even be a hindrance.
3.) On my personal list of priorities, uni stuff was always, at best, a distant second or third to writing and other kinds of creative endeavours; now that I've discovered I want to do my part to save the world, uni stuff has been downgraded to fourth or so. You can't do a Ph.D. if you're only willing to grant it fourth priority - and a distant fourth at that, behind things as time-consuming as writing, making jewellery, and saving the world.
4.) I would have to get a job anyway, because my parents aren't going to support me any longer, so I would have to do the Ph.D. 'on the side' - and I'm a low-energy person, my life broke down completely even while I was doing 'only' my M.A. and working a measly 10-hours-per-week job. With a full-time, or nearly full-time job *and* a Ph.D. thesis to write, I'd go mad. Or at least starve, for want of time to eat; and probably forget the face of every friend I ever had. Not to mention that I'd have to give up all my 'hobbies' which, as I described in 3.), are really the most important things in my life.
Damn, now I've burned my dinner.
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Date: 2009-07-13 09:54 pm (UTC)Especially people who then grant their crazy hobbies a higher priority than actual, you know, money-making real world stuff!
*solidarity*
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Date: 2009-07-21 02:43 pm (UTC)Imke