
strube
Audioholic Field Marshall
Hi everyone,
I have a venty question. Is this master's degree crap worth it? I am 1.5 years into it and can't focus at all - I just want to quit and get a real job. I haven't got any research done, let alone anything else, in about a month (I have just basically screwed around, which adds some guilt into the equation) and I am sure my adviser is wondering where the heck I am, and what I am doing to earn my monthly stipend. It seems like I am so close but yet so very far away. I am supposed to be done in August.
When I started (after 5 very difficult years of getting simultaneous EE and ME undergrad degrees) I was kind of excited about doing some energy research because I knew that would be one place I could always find a job, even in a crappy economy, and I liked gas turbines class so I figured I would like deeper gas turbines research. Now I can't even sit down to look at the stuff. I maybe should have changed scenery, 7 years is a long time to be at one school doing essentially the same thing day-by-day.
On top of all of that, I haven't had any theater or AV install or custom computer-build jobs (which were two of the things that really helped me relax, not to mention fund this AH hobby) for a very long time. In addition, there is no snow, so I can't blow off any steam by burning fossil fuels at a very high rate on a snowmobile.
We don't have any friends because they have all moved to bigger things, so that is sort of depressing, and I, for one, am somewhat inept socially so it takes me many years to foster a real friendship. I just spend my days staring at my research or homework and getting very little done outside of browsing the internet aimlessly and occasionally toying with the HT. My fiancee is probably pretty fed up with me too - we are supposed to be preparing for our wedding in June and I am pretty sure I haven't done my fair share there either. Sometimes I think I have forgotten how to work at something after working 18-24 hours a day every day to get my undergrad degrees - maybe I won't even be able to get a job...
Anyway, thanks for letting me vent. I haven't been a member here that long, but you guys are pretty great.
Strube
When I started (after 5 very difficult years of getting simultaneous EE and ME undergrad degrees) I was kind of excited about doing some energy research because I knew that would be one place I could always find a job, even in a crappy economy, and I liked gas turbines class so I figured I would like deeper gas turbines research. Now I can't even sit down to look at the stuff. I maybe should have changed scenery, 7 years is a long time to be at one school doing essentially the same thing day-by-day.
On top of all of that, I haven't had any theater or AV install or custom computer-build jobs (which were two of the things that really helped me relax, not to mention fund this AH hobby) for a very long time. In addition, there is no snow, so I can't blow off any steam by burning fossil fuels at a very high rate on a snowmobile.
We don't have any friends because they have all moved to bigger things, so that is sort of depressing, and I, for one, am somewhat inept socially so it takes me many years to foster a real friendship. I just spend my days staring at my research or homework and getting very little done outside of browsing the internet aimlessly and occasionally toying with the HT. My fiancee is probably pretty fed up with me too - we are supposed to be preparing for our wedding in June and I am pretty sure I haven't done my fair share there either. Sometimes I think I have forgotten how to work at something after working 18-24 hours a day every day to get my undergrad degrees - maybe I won't even be able to get a job...
Anyway, thanks for letting me vent. I haven't been a member here that long, but you guys are pretty great.
Strube