Livre d'Or

I'm two years into a funded full-time PhD and I cannot see the point of continuing. I find research akin to being slowly and indefinitely lowered down a very deep well. It doesn't fit with my temperament.

So I'm going to the uni counselling service as soon as I can and I'll talk things through with them. I hope to have made my final decision within a month.

Academics seem to give up their lives to do it. The only two that I admire in my field are admirable precisely because they are well known for having other hobbies and interests. So I did try to emulate them for a while. But I think they have a resilience and social advantages that I don't.

So I think I'm just going to try to be a normal person again. If any of the friendships I've made in academia last beyond my quitting, I'll be surprised. But hopefully one or two of them will. :-)