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  1. I've completed my coursework. I've passed my qualifying and preliminary exams. I've completed my thesis credits. I've done original research. I've published. I've presented at conferences at home and abroad. I've won awards. When is enough enough? When have I done enough to finish my PhD? I feel like the ballgame should be just about over, but my advisor keeps assigning me more projects, which I stupidly agree to undertake and work on, only to have him assign me something else in the middle of what he asked me to work on before. Does anyone else feel like they're being asked to pitch an extra inning game without a closer to come in and take over for you? When does all this madness stop, and when can I go home? The game has gone on too long for me to really care who wins anymore. Sometimes I just want to pack my bags and leave, but I know that I'd regret it after getting home and waking up the next morning.
  2. It's just my two cents, but both options sound like they could be useful and fulfilling lines of research. That being said, in terms of broader applications, the finite element method project is probably more useful and applicable to other fields. You did not state what department or field this research is in, but it sounds like mechanical or some type of industrial engineering. People who do and work on FEM in engineering are very common, and probably much more so than people who are working on the type of optimization you described. In my view, the optimization route would be more "cutting edge" and probably ultimately more useful, both in academia and industry -- on the condition that you know for sure that you want to stay in your field. If are looking to keep your options open and pursue many different types of applications and potentially change fields, FEM is probably more useful and probably more marketable at the present time.
  3. Hi. I'm currently a Ph.D. student studying computational science (not computer science) at a large research university in an urban area of the midwestern United States. I'm currently all but dissertation, and hopefully just a little over a year from finishing. Unfortunately, I have absolutely no desire to continue my current line of research. I applied to my current university (which will remain nameless) hoping to work in computational fluid dynamics or some area of computational geology such as groundwater flow. Sadly, I wasn't offered any funding to work in those fields, but I was offered funding to work in biophysical modeling, and so I decided to take the biophysical modeling funding and work on a project in that area because I had no other options. So here is what I'd like to know. I'd like to know whether anyone here has been in the same situation and has found a satisfying job unrelated to their Ph.D. research quickly after graduation. Additionally, I'm interested in some of your advice. However, before you hastily give advice, please consider that I'm married and unwilling to relocate for the next five years or so, and that I'm unwilling to do a postdoc. Also, it may be helpful to know that I have master's degree in mathematics (my area of emphasis was numerical analysis) and have been programming in C++ for over 10 years. Thanks.
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