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rustyboy
05 Jan 10 22:27
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get a job or do a PhD?

(serious dilemma - i'm at a crossroad in life where i can do either.)

Let the forum decide!
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Report bodil • January 5, 2010 10:28 PM GMT
A PhD in what?
Report The Leopard • January 5, 2010 10:28 PM GMT
Get an Std...?
Report cunnybobbler • January 5, 2010 10:28 PM GMT
save the rain forests
Report Brodie • January 5, 2010 10:28 PM GMT
Get a skill. Plumber, electrician etc.
Report yorky • January 5, 2010 10:28 PM GMT
dont you mean a t junction in life
Report Big Charlie • January 5, 2010 10:31 PM GMT
Be a bank robber.
Report yeahyeahwhatever • January 5, 2010 10:31 PM GMT
do what makes you happy. YOU, not your reflection in others. Are you doing a phd because it will impress others; or because you want to? Are you planning to get a job because you need routine and regular interaction with others - or is it social conditioning that makes you embarrassed when others find out you haven't got a job?

In the words of Quentin Crisp - the only way to be happy is to live your life as though you are the only person in the world.
Report larrence • January 5, 2010 10:31 PM GMT
rustyboy 05 Jan 23:27


get a job or do a PhD?

(serious dilemma - i'm at a crossroad in life where i can do either.)

Let the forum decide!

Yeah train to become a plumber m8 and work for yourself, only chance in this life nowdays ;)
Report bodil • January 5, 2010 10:33 PM GMT
Get a skill. Butcher, torturer, builder, farmer, physician, cook, decontaminating expert. 21st century essentials.
Report yorky • January 5, 2010 10:34 PM GMT
become a snow plough driver, never ever seen that job advertised though
Report larrence • January 5, 2010 10:35 PM GMT
I wish i trained to be a vet, saving people's animals would have been my ideal job ;)
Report yorky • January 5, 2010 10:36 PM GMT
larrence are you made of sugared almonds you are such a nice man
Report bodil • January 5, 2010 10:37 PM GMT
In the later 21st century, we'll all be eating everyones' pets. Cook, I tell you!
Report The Leopard • January 5, 2010 10:37 PM GMT
Do a job where you need good English Language skills..............so you can't be undercut by foreigners...
Report larrence • January 5, 2010 10:40 PM GMT
yorky 05 Jan 23:36


larrence are you made of sugared almonds you are such a nice man

Not really m8, i just would like to do all the good things in life, no point being bad. Plus of course i love my animals. :)
Report yorky • January 5, 2010 10:43 PM GMT
larrence I tried to be good all my life, but find others feel you can be easily put upon
Report gresty241 • January 5, 2010 10:44 PM GMT
sit on your @rse and sign on, receive a nice house with all the bills paid for where you can drink, sleep and play with no hassles......seems very popular nowadays
Report cunnybobbler • January 5, 2010 10:44 PM GMT
bin men have a cushy job shirley. get up. dont bother having a wash or a shave. tell each other rude jokes. whinge about immigrants. drool over some** on page 3. push a bin about 5 feet. scrath your testicles. push a bin back where you got it from. have a bacon sarnie. go back to bed.
Report JamesBlakesHugeArse • January 5, 2010 10:45 PM GMT
PhD - you will have plenty of time to work in the future
Report larrence • January 5, 2010 10:47 PM GMT
yorky 05 Jan 23:43


larrence I tried to be good all my life, but find others feel you can be easily put upon

i am sure you are a good person m8, never change, don't worry about others if they try to bring you down they are not worth it. Plenty of good people about.
Report rustyboy • January 5, 2010 10:50 PM GMT
:)

thanks all

some nice advice here
Report ReaseHeath • January 5, 2010 10:51 PM GMT
Don't you get funding for a PhD? Good time to do one given state of economy- we'll come out of recession slowly so even if it takes 3 years it's worthwhile as long as the research is meaningful and opens a potential career path (beyond academia if possible).
Report rustyboy • January 5, 2010 10:55 PM GMT
yes equivalent of £22,000 (=£17,000 as its an untaxed grant)

not to be sniffed at.
Report Six of Clubs • January 5, 2010 10:56 PM GMT
depends what you are doing a phd in tbh
Report numer0ne • January 5, 2010 10:57 PM GMT
wander the earth like kane from kung fu
Report lmfao • January 5, 2010 10:57 PM GMT
peanuts- i'm not special- i netted 65k p.a til i had the good sense to escape
Report rustyboy • January 5, 2010 10:57 PM GMT
it would be in computer animation and film technologies.

(Pixar type stuff ;) )
Report ReaseHeath • January 5, 2010 10:59 PM GMT
what are your job options, rusty?
Report Petrus Romanus • January 5, 2010 10:59 PM GMT
get a job u lazy fvcker...u won't necessarily make any more dough if ur a phd as opposed to say an msc or even bsc.
Report Six of Clubs • January 5, 2010 11:01 PM GMT
1 do what makes you happy

2 try and get in touch with the people doing the type of work you want to do and ask them

are the 2 best bits of advice i can give at this late hour.
Report lmfao • January 5, 2010 11:02 PM GMT
1. get into an industry that pays well
2. get out as soon as you cabn afford to
Report bodil • January 5, 2010 11:11 PM GMT
A bit late now. I recommend running about naked screaming "it's too late." But I always lacked the artistic touch.
Report Brodie • January 5, 2010 11:20 PM GMT
Get a job as bodil's psychiatrist. You'll never cure him and he'll still be morbid ,but you'll bring in the big bucks ;)
Just joshing bodil :D
Report bodil • January 5, 2010 11:22 PM GMT
I know you are Brodie. You laughably assumed I had money!
Report Brodie • January 5, 2010 11:23 PM GMT
:D
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