[The_Lonely_Goatherd]

(Original post by Hylean)
Not necessarily a bad thing, though.

I'm just going to say it proves we should interact with fans more, to make sure we are talking about them accurately

[Ice_Queen]

I don't compare myself to my family or work or anything. I'm just finding it hard to say "I am very proud of what I achieved, against all the odds" and answer the question 'what next?' without sounding snobby. My ambitions are almost all academic - as long as I am enjoying my work I don't have ambitions to be rich or anything like that, but wealth as an ambition is easy to justify. It's hard to justify wanting a doctorate, especially when you work in industry instead of academia.

I don't know I'm just ambitious to better myself and I don't understand the people around me who aren't.

[Cirsium]

(Original post by Hylean)
W00t! For what?

Gave my first ever conference talk today. Just a little 'young researchers only' thing but I got a pretty certificate and they're gonna send me a cheque

[Hylean]

(Original post by The_Lonely_Goatherd)
I'm just going to say it proves we should interact with fans more, to make sure we are talking about them accurately

I am a big fan of reciprocity, discussing theories and interpretations with your informants/consultants, as the emic perspective is always going to be highly important and etic interpretations often miss things.

(Original post by Cirsium)
Gave my first ever conference talk today. Just a little 'young researchers only' thing but I got a pretty certificate and they're gonna send me a cheque

Success!

I hope some day to hold a conference paper outside of student conferences.

[The_Lonely_Goatherd]

(Original post by Cirsium)
Gave my first ever conference talk today. Just a little 'young researchers only' thing but I got a pretty certificate and they're gonna send me a cheque

Sounds pretty to me

(Original post by Hylean)
I am a big fan of reciprocity, discussing theories and interpretations with your informants/consultants, as the emic perspective is always going to be highly important and etic interpretations often miss things.

Precisely!

[Whatever9999]

Congratulation dude !

[goape]

(Original post by Ice_Queen)
Good news: I passed my MSc.

Bad news: I don't know how to be proud of it without seeming like I think I'm better than everyone else.

I am the first person in my family to get any degree, I am the most qualified person in my department at work. Out of all my friends I have the best qualifications.

However, I am aware that qualifications aren't all that matters, and I know that having my MSc doesn't make me better than them. I am good in some respects, but I know that the people around me exceed me in many others! I just want to shout about my PG because I am damn proud and I worked damn hard, but I don't know how to do it without appearing to look down on them.

My next stops are my professional qualifications and then my PhD. Again, when people ask me about what I'm doing next, I just sound pretentious, and I get loads of 'jokes' about collecting the alphabet!

Any tips?

Oh FFS you every right to shout out about it, as long as you don't sound really boastful or go on about like a broken record no rational human will hold any bitterness against you.

You really are making a mountain out of a molehill.

[sj27]

(Original post by Cirsium)
So it seems that lack of data isn't actually an impediment to giving a decent presentation. Just got a prize

Last evening in Paris tonight - Istanbul tomorrow

[Lil08]

Congratulations!

You have every right to be proud of yourself and if others don't see it like that then thats their problem.

[nulli tertius]

(Original post by Ice_Queen)
Good news: I passed my MSc.

Bad news: I don't know how to be proud of it without seeming like I think I'm better than everyone else.

I am the first person in my family to get any degree, I am the most qualified person in my department at work. Out of all my friends I have the best qualifications.

However, I am aware that qualifications aren't all that matters, and I know that having my MSc doesn't make me better than them. I am good in some respects, but I know that the people around me exceed me in many others! I just want to shout about my PG because I am damn proud and I worked damn hard, but I don't know how to do it without appearing to look down on them.

My next stops are my professional qualifications and then my PhD. Again, when people ask me about what I'm doing next, I just sound pretentious, and I get loads of 'jokes' about collecting the alphabet!

Any tips?

Congratulations.

Order some new business cards!

[sanaindaclub]

(Original post by Ice_Queen)
I don't compare myself to my family or work or anything. I'm just finding it hard to say "I am very proud of what I achieved, against all the odds" and answer the question 'what next?' without sounding snobby. My ambitions are almost all academic - as long as I am enjoying my work I don't have ambitions to be rich or anything like that, but wealth as an ambition is easy to justify. It's hard to justify wanting a doctorate, especially when you work in industry instead of academia.

I don't know I'm just ambitious to better myself and I don't understand the people around me who aren't.

Congrats and good for you! You are where I hope to be in a couple of years! Whats your career plan?

[Cora Lindsay]

(Original post by The_Lonely_Goatherd)
This is the problem with my dissertation questionnaire. It's proved my hypothesis wrong Oops!

Nothing wrong with that. It's the wonder of a good hypothesis- your research is valid whether the hypothesis stands or falls, so you win either way.

[Ice_Queen]

(Original post by sanaindaclub)
Congrats and good for you! You are where I hope to be in a couple of years! Whats your career plan?

See, that's the question I am beginning to hate. How do I tell people that have been in the same job for years, or don't know what they plan on doing, or just want to get rich quick with no real plan that I have everything sorted?

First I have to do my CIMA qualification. This is three years. I keep moving up the career ladder, taking the opportunities that arise. I am hoping to get into management accounting; financial accounting isn't my strong suit.

After I've saved enough money and am a bit more comfortable, I want to do my PhD. I'm hoping to have done that by the time I get to 40. Then it's onwards and upwards from there until I kick the bucket

[hasan4life]

congrats

[ktr]

(Original post by Cirsium)
So it seems that lack of data isn't actually an impediment to giving a decent presentation. Just got a prize

yay, congrats! glad it went in the end.

(and PRSOM :-/)

[Brianop]

That's very nice of you OP, and well done, but seriously now, just shut up and enjoy your success, feel the greatness of all that hard work paying off! Congrats!

actually, editting: make them connect to your efforts more, perhaps say something like, i went through so much to get this, things were really hard etc.

[hobnob]

(Original post by Cora Lindsay)
Nothing wrong with that. It's the wonder of a good hypothesis- your research is valid whether the hypothesis stands or falls, so you win either way.

And alternatively, this method also works.

[Lantana]

(Original post by Cora Lindsay)
Nothing wrong with that. It's the wonder of a good hypothesis- your research is valid whether the hypothesis stands or falls, so you win either way.

Well isn't this why psychology likes their null hypothesis! Right either way

[Ice_Queen]

(Original post by Brianop)
That's very nice of you OP, and well done, but seriously now, just shut up and enjoy your success, feel the greatness of all that hard work paying off! Congrats!

actually, editting: make them connect to your efforts more, perhaps say something like, i went through so much to get this, things were really hard etc.

I have actually found that this makes it worse. As if I can achieve something whatever the odds while they trundle along.

[Above.The.Empyrean]

Buy a top hat and a monocle.