October 2012 Weddings
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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Confession Thursday
Re: Confession Thursday
I confess I feel like my life is going no where. H and I live in the same small, crappy 1 bedroom apartment that we moved into when we first moved to Pittsburgh...THREE years ago. H works the same shi*t job he got when we moved here.
I have $110,000+ debt for undergrad and I just feel like I'll be in debt forever and we will never buy a house. We get by, but aren't saving hardly any money. H works two jobs and I'm a grad student/research assistant at my university. We are able to pay our bills and go out once and awhile. but as far as saving for a house or a new car or a baby...no way. I'm just so fed up. I wish H could find one job that paid equivalent to what he makes at the 2 he has now so he didn't have to work 70 hours every single week.
Confession #2:
I wish DH would put on the baby brakes a bit! Him and I originially talked about trying after our 1st anniversary, but I want to wait another year. I'm having so much fun this year. The last 2 years have been about either buying a house or planning a wedding, I'm just loving not having anything to plan for. I know it's selfish, but I'm not quite ready to give that up. I told him I feel like we can start after next summer and his response was, "I'm not getting any younger." He's 27, I'm not sure how that's making his bio clock tick...
2 confessions: 1 silly and 1 serious
First the silly:
I'm obsessed with the Royal Baby Watch! I've always been fascinated by the British Monarchy, and I've been following every Duchess Kate story that I can get my hands on LOL. I think the baby will be a girl, but they are not going to name her Diana (although I'm sure that will be part of the million middle names that royals have LOL).
The serious:
I'm so burned out with this Ph.D. It feels like I'm never going to finish. I work 7 days a week and I feel like I'm spinning my wheels further into the ground with every experiment that I try. I set up a meeting with my thesis committee for August 8, and I really hope that they tell me that I can stop doing experiments and just focus on writing the thesis. **Fingers crossed**
Finding a job after Ph.D. is another thing that's seriously stressing me out. I don't want to take the traditional academic route and I don't want to do a post-doc fellowship (basically more of what I've been doing in my Ph.D.). I've been networking, but it feels like such a terrible time for science and to find a job in general. It also seriously bums me out that even with a Ph.D. I'll probably have to start in some entry level job making no money. If I could do it all over again, I would never EVER start a Ph.D. program!