Am staying at home with my parents for the time being (recently became unemployed and the recession is making job hunting tough).

I just got an email the other day confirming that my thesis had been approved. I had defended my thesis last year and passed with some revisions required. Last month I resubmitted with revisions made, and since then I’d been waiting to hear back from the examiners.

Well, I did, and I passed. And… no-one really seems to care. My parents invited some friends and relatives over for a dinner, but everyone pretty much ignored me and no-one asked anything about my research, or even about what I planned to do next. It was just like it was all just a convenient excuse for a family reunion.

I thought for the longest time that this would never happen. I spent over half a decade and for most of that time I didn’t seriously think that I would get here.

The people who attended didn’t even seem to get what a PhD was, or that that was the degree I have attained. One of them seriously asked if I was going to continue studying, to which I had to explain that that’s not possible since I now have the highest degree one can get.

I don’t know where I am going with this, but the subreddit is about getting stuff off one’s chest, right? So I guess that’s what this rant is all about.