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Alpinestarhero
15-09-09, 11:59 AM
My PhD contract arrived today. £14,000 per year, tax free, for three years.

hurrah

I hope everyone is well by the way, all taking care of yourselves?

Matt
Luckypants
15-09-09, 12:01 PM
Congrats Matt

How do you swing a tax free income BTW? I would love one of those! :D
Alpinestarhero
15-09-09, 12:27 PM
a bit of post graduate research :cool: im still being edumakated :D
lily
15-09-09, 12:38 PM
Yay and double Yay for being tax free!!!!!


:D
Viney
15-09-09, 12:41 PM
Beers on you then. Get them in me lad.
gruntygiggles
15-09-09, 12:51 PM
Woo.......good for you.
anna
15-09-09, 01:01 PM
Well done hun!
davepreston
15-09-09, 02:06 PM
student tax robbing mefgyegfegefg
lol nice one bud glad someone i like is actually getting my hard earned
Owenski
15-09-09, 02:10 PM
wait so you get paid 14000 just for having a PHD, me thick me no understand.
davepreston
15-09-09, 02:14 PM
he go play mad scientist for 4 days a week they call it research ,we call it why do i need to know if people mainly balance best on there dominant side, and he gets 14k for doing it
Alpinestarhero
15-09-09, 02:16 PM
I be getting paid to do good, hard, honest science research. All new, enver been done before stuff. Maybe a new treatment for cancer in it aswell, who knows (and anti-bacterial stuff too)

5 days a week, maybe 6 if I get some awesome idea
Owenski
15-09-09, 02:22 PM
14000 untaxed for playing about with chemicals and other cool lab stuff, you jammy sod. Thats similar to what I get after tax, only I have to work in a stuff office all week (been on here) but pretending to work really hard :(

In all seriousness mate Congratulations, you kick cancer's ass.
davepreston
15-09-09, 02:29 PM
i can see it now
page 1 ash finds cure to cancer
page 2 bear my night of lust with ash at ar
lmao
Alpinestarhero
15-09-09, 02:39 PM
you kick cancer's ass.

In the words of team america, world police

"f*** yeeaaa!"

I shall write that quote of yours on my fume hood to keep me going when the last 25 experiments have failed :lol:
Aiki
15-09-09, 02:45 PM
I obviously did my PhD too early, I was on half that when I did mine. Lucky so and so.

Good luck with it though, the first four years are the worst. :lol:
Speedy Claire
15-09-09, 04:07 PM
Well done.... sounds great and good luck with the research
Alpinestarhero
15-09-09, 04:22 PM
I obviously did my PhD too early, I was on half that when I did mine. Lucky so and so.

Good luck with it though, the first four years are the worst. :lol:

that dosnt bode well, its only a 3 year post

good job maria is a psychologist, she can provide the counselling in the fourth year :lol:
Aiki
15-09-09, 04:58 PM
that dosnt bode well, its only a 3 year post

good job maria is a psychologist, she can provide the counselling in the fourth year :lol:

Ah yes, everyone thinks they will finish in 3 years. I would have done if it hadn't been for the pesky workshop being a bunch of workshy comedians and making me wait six months for parts :smt021

The obligatory fourth year is spent in penury desperately trying to finish your thesis. Do not get a job before you finish your thesis, it will only end badly. a friend of mine did and never got his phd as a result.

The best thing to do is to live off your other half which I see you already have lined up. :D
Alpinestarhero
15-09-09, 05:02 PM
LOL!

I'll try my best to support myself, I'll put money away...I promise!

We generally dont have trouble getting the chemicals we need, although there are some things we need special lisences for (my friend wants a compound hydroxybenzotriazole...HOBt...which is apparently quite explosive and therefore requires the uni posess an explosives lisence. I used it at ucl with some varying degree of care, never had a problem!)

I've often wondered, are there any other chemists on this forum?
Warthog
15-09-09, 05:11 PM
Ah yes, everyone thinks they will finish in 3 years. I would have done if it hadn't been for the pesky workshop being a bunch of workshy comedians and making me wait six months for parts :smt021

The obligatory fourth year is spent in penury desperately trying to finish your thesis. Do not get a job before you finish your thesis, it will only end badly. a friend of mine did and never got his phd as a result.

The best thing to do is to live off your other half which I see you already have lined up. :D

This man speaks the truth. My "3 year course" went 4 years cos they brought out Oblivion on the PC :lol:

My advice: when your stipend runs out, your savings disappear like lightnening, so make sure you are either finished or that you have some other income.

Good luck and have fun Matt!
Jayneflakes
15-09-09, 10:22 PM
Well done and the very best of luck. I hope it turns out to be everything you want it to be. :D
Lozzo
15-09-09, 10:42 PM
Well done matey, spend it wisely. Kawasaki are doing 0% finance on the lovely Versys if you want a good bike.
Von Teese
16-09-09, 06:30 AM
Great news A*H
Enjoy it while you can :)
Amanda M
16-09-09, 08:55 AM
I'm a biochemist if that counts. Good luck with the research - it's fun some of the time when it works, but frustrating the rest of the time (~90%);) I'm currently writing up my MPhil project which I've been doing alongside my full-time job (yes, I'm a glutton for punishment) and I'm contemplating a PhD but don't know how much it would benefit me career-wise.

Good luck!
phi-dan
16-09-09, 09:26 AM
LOL!

I'll try my best to support myself, I'll put money away...I promise!

We generally dont have trouble getting the chemicals we need, although there are some things we need special lisences for (my friend wants a compound hydroxybenzotriazole...HOBt...which is apparently quite explosive and therefore requires the uni posess an explosives lisence. I used it at ucl with some varying degree of care, never had a problem!)

I've often wondered, are there any other chemists on this forum?

Just had a look at the structure - looks similar to trinitrobenzene (iirc). I got locked out of my sixthform lab for making that :smt042

Good luck with the PhD tho
Alpinestarhero
16-09-09, 10:04 AM
Its no-where near as explosive as TNB (or its similar derivative, TNT)...I honestly cant see what the fuss is!
Alpinestarhero
16-09-09, 10:05 AM
Well done matey, spend it wisely. Kawasaki are doing 0% finance on the lovely Versys if you want a good bike.

I do but I dont then want to replace all the fastners and bolts and heel plates because they corrode / rub away :flower::flower:

aaaah something will come up bike-wise
phi-dan
16-09-09, 11:27 AM
Its no-where near as explosive as TNB (or its similar derivative, TNT)...I honestly cant see what the fuss is!

That's COSHH for you!

You should see the entry for water :)
Ceri JC
16-09-09, 02:26 PM
Congrats fella. Hope you enjoy it and it goes well for you.
Foxy
16-09-09, 02:36 PM
Congratulations and good luck :D
Alpinestarhero
17-09-09, 11:26 AM
I'mhoping I fair better at this PhD than the one i started but gave upon at UCL
yorkie_chris
17-09-09, 02:35 PM
That's COSHH for you!

You should see the entry for water :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_hoax

Class!
Alpinestarhero
17-09-09, 02:44 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_hoax

Class!

LOL!!!

"used in many forms of cruel animal research"

"used as an additive in junk foods"

I must say, I havn't seen a COSHH / MSDS form for water, and have heard that the assesment is somewhat disturbing from many people...
Bluewolf
17-09-09, 02:59 PM
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