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shateredsoul:
--- Quote from: shmokes on February 28, 2010, 02:45:37 pm ---I'm in the same boat. 18 credit hours at law school and I'm a research assistant for one of the profs. I'm averaging maybe 5 hours sleep per night. It'll all be over soon, though, and frankly I'm not looking forward to it. This is a helluva semester, but all in all I love school. And once I graduate I can say goodbye to a month off in the winter, a week off in the spring and three months off in the summer--on top of all the normal holidays. I can say goodbye to starting completely new projects with brand new people every five months. I can say hello to 70-hour workweeks, working with the same people day-in-day-out year after year. I know you're stressed, but try not to miss the forest for the trees. You probably have it pretty good right now.
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Yeah good point... I get winter break for about 3 or 4 weeks, summer's I'm usually doing research but it's a lot more laid back than the normal quarter. I stick to the same project throughout, because they push us to get stuff published. If I become a professor.. I'll still have the same sort of schedule though, but the thing is I would still have to keep bringing work home or stay home at the office. If I work at a research firm I'll get paid way more and have the standard 8 to 5 hour schedule.. but I won't be doing research that interests me, but research that the firm wants me to do. As a professor, I could focus on my interests. If I'm a prof I'll get new grad students to work with as often as I accept them, but most likely to be a prof I'd have to move to the midwest (that's where all the jobs are). I don't want to leave Cali =/
Just went for a jog, that helps a lot, gonna practice my guitar, then go to a coffee shop and get some work done. I love the slower days... even though I'm doing work on a Sunday. I'm also looking at slim arcade builds.
Blanka:
--- Quote from: Vanguard on February 24, 2010, 09:34:18 am ---I've got some advice for you. Don't graduate.
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Do Graduate!
The time after graduating was the easiest in my life ever! Continue living like a student, no expenses, still learning, but getting a crapload of money for doing it in a strict rhythm from 9-5. Never had more money and time for fun stuff.
shateredsoul:
ha ha.. but I've been a student so long, I bet I'll miss it.
shateredsoul:
Whoa,
My work days are usually 10 hours a day 6 days a week. Some weekends I work all one day, others I spread it out across both days (like this weekend). I'm doing Developmental Psych with a focus on research, but even my wife who finished a 2 year masters program in 1 year for Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics didn't have it that bad. The PhD students who I met in engineering, physics, social sciences, humanities.. none of them have it that bad. But, it also depends on your advisor. The thing is, many of the students in the "hard" sciences don't ever have to worry about working outside of their research because of how well those areas are funded. Whereas I have to work another job along side my program and it's requirements.
Then again the average number years of completion for my program is 6 years.. you can technically do it in 4 years (I know one person who has done this), and I can see how my life would be more like your wife's life if I tried to do it in 4. I Still have to schedule in the free time though or pay for it later.
I would say that I do get xmas off, but should work through it.. I do pay for it later but oh well. My summers are pretty laid back, even if I'm working the same wours it just feels different because of the longer days.
Anyways, I'm finishing up my last class this quarter, so I'm pretty happy about that, now I can just focus on research
CheffoJeffo:
What is up with the boo----smurfing----hoo-it's-tough-to-be-in-school ---That which is odiferous and causeth plants to grow--- ? Really, spare us the crap about how tough it is to be a double-income-with-no-kids family with one of you "working" in academia. ::)
C'mon people ... saint fell though a ceiling and broke his freaking foot ... can't you think about anybody other than yourselves ?
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