Are there any lp students out there? I am in my final weeks of PhD. I think my dm (who looks after dd twice a week) has asked me almost everyday for the past six months 'have you finished yet?' (hmm) or 'do you really need to read another book?
Its been quite a journey. I have only just discovered this section of MN which really feels like voices from the dark. It can be very isolating studying all day at the library, on your own, and then coming home to look after dc, on your own and then the same all over again the next day.
There are good things too however, I feel in a way more motivated to finish to set an example to my dd and also to provide for her. However, it probably set me back two years from completion.
DD is just over two now. I am just putting the final pieces of my thesis together, after five years. Its really very boring like setting out a bibliography etc.
I totally sympathise with other threads that say that people don't respect you because its not 'work', even if you are paid.
Anyone else in a similar boat?