CWS2017

I wanted to get back and post an update. I started my job about 4 weeks ago. I am not having any trouble working on it while working full time even though wake up at 7 and get back home at 5 (work from 8-4:30). I am working on it almost every day during the weekday for an hour or two, then around 10 hours max on the weekend. I was assigned to essentially write the intro/lit review for my dissertation which I have 4 months to complete, already wrote around 35 pages out of the 50 and hasn't been a month since. I still think it's reasonable to complete it within 2 years since i have the data already, setup the committee, etc. Actually I worry that the committee will be too slow to provide feedback, etc. since I am far away and can't see them in person, so if there is anything that would keep me from graduating in 2 years it would be outside my control. It helps tremendously that I'm single, no kids, pets, never married, no responsibilities. I think few people have a situation like mine with so much free time outside of work. What are your reasons why you don't feel like writing a dissertation when you get home from work? 

I'm just gonna post something that needs to be said.
No matter how much you disagree with the quantification of political science, it is not going away and is only going to increase for the most part. And depending on your field (especially if you study American) qualitative methods may be nearly, or completely dead in the water.
The name 'Skocpol Wannabe' is alarming. Every graduate student reads States and Social Revolutions and there is a lot to learn from it. However, political science is NOT done like this anymore in basically any capacity. 
Some of the posters have advised taking extra-departmental qualitative classes, I don't think that is really a good idea (outside of something like a survey qualitative methods course or comparative-historical studies). Archival work isn't a big thing in political science. Ethnography simply does not exist in the field. Interviews, while can be a part of a comparative politics research design, are usually just reserved for theory building and getting information that isn't available otherwise. Furthermore, the critical and gender theory that is heavily used in fields like Women's studies and Anthropology have virtually no standing in political science.
If you don't have abilities in quant you probably won't get a job nor publish in top journals; it is as simple as that. You need to think about perhaps looking at other disciplines if you are dead set on qualitative methods, it's going to be a huge uphill battle throughout your career if you try to go against the grain.