Is my PhD my midlife crisis?

Fiona Dobbie is loving life as a PhD student, and hopes any midlife crisis it represents will end on graduation day

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March 12, 2017
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July 31, 2018
Fiona Dobbie
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#1 Submitted by m.... on March 23, 2017 - 1:26pm
Heh, I'm doing the same thing... only I'm 57! Perhaps this is me growing old disgracefully! Like the author, I've slithered back into academia after a career in the outside world and I'm loving it! Dream job, looking after Degree Apprentices, and now they are encouraging me to do a PhD as well :)
#2 Submitted by chowes41_255196 on March 27, 2017 - 10:37pm
I am 53 and in my third year of a literature thesis. I guess this article rang true with me too. But despite the feeling that I might never finish, I also love the fact that I am learning so much, and am improving my writing skills and critical thinking. It is hard to combine work and family as well, but I think there are so many advantages that age brings to the process, I am glad I took the decision to do it,even though I curse it all the time! It's never too late.

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