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Thank you for your suggestions fuzzylogician. My problems are too many and depressing so I will just focus on the current one I have. I forgot to mention that in those 6 months, I also managed to get a postdoc BUT far from my field of research. From Civil Engineering to Applied Mathematics. It feels like re-starting a new career (after a PhD!), but I so much hated my current field because of my adviser, anything would have done. I didn't have journal publications (only conferences) at the time so I sent him a section of my thesis that was relevant for the position. He liked me and appreciated the effort I put in my thesis and gave me the position. One of the questions during the interview was , 'Why did you do all this work (something they are interested in), when you don't have to in your field'. I told them my adviser encouraged me to do it, but the truth is it is something I came up with while desperately looking for something to do for my thesis. I can publish papers while doing the post-doc but I won't be continuing in the same stream so the situation doesn't change much from now. In fact it is better to get it over with now, because I may never come back to my current field again. Weird to say that after a PhD but that is how it is. My adviser is one of those career-driven professors who only know of 'catch-phrases' in the field. I know my limits so I just want to finish with the goal I started with, and not add stuff he hears of from the next conference. I tried to explain to him many times the scope of the paper but he has made up his mind. Whenever I come out a meeting with him, I feel completely drained with his negativity and ignorance.

I have a problem with my adviser about publishing. I want to send a paper for review and he doesn't! It is usually the other way round so I don't really know what to do? I told him my career is on the line (and he agreed) and that at least I need to send it for review. But he says no unless I unless I do this, and that, and this. You may think this is normal but believe me I regret the day I chose him as my adviser because he is the dumbest person you can imagine. He almost single handedly destroyed my career in the past 4 years. It is not only for me, all of his other students had the same problem. Only in the last 6 months did I realize the severity of the problem. So I decided to shut him up, and work on my self (mostly computational work) and started getting results. I work better when I don't listen to what he says because he doesn't know anything about the subject. In that time I managed to work on my dissertation from ground 0,write a draft and submit for defense. I have also extracted three papers out of it and ready to submit and I have no wish at all to work on it further. He was very shocked at my progress, so now he wants me to do more. I told him I just want to try my chances at publishing and had enough. I submitted the first paper couple of months when I got tired of his requests. He didn't like that at all but now that it got accepted he shut up. He has warned me that we will 'push the button together' from now on , so I can't send the other papers now. What do I do? I can not expect to have an academic career when I don't even send papers for review. What do you do when the co-author doesn't agree with the paper?

Thank you very much ladybug3. That really helped!

I got an offer to University of western ontario in phd program. They offered me financial support that covers tution of the following amount. But I don't understand what ancillary fees are, if I have to pay for part of the tuition etc.. I just want to know if i will be able to survive just doing the TA or RA work. A friend of had terrible situation in another canadian university about 4 year ago. Could anyone enlighten me roughly how much I should expect to get in my pocket per month after all fees are paid. I just need a guess to make a decision. Here is part of the offer letter that I had doublts with: ========================================== We are pleased to offer you a generous financial support package of 15000$ per year plus the cost of tuition (ancillary fees are extra). We gaurantee that if tution fee increases you will recieve a net yearly income of 12000$. ----- It is your responsiblity to obtain health insurance for your self. (I am single btw) ========================================= And ancillary fees with a big health and dental fee of 446$ as shown here http://www.registrar...202011-2012.pdf I don't know if I would get even 800# per month once I paid the fees? Is that correct ? Could I leave just by being a TA and no other extra work ? If some one studied in UWO please help. It is greatly appreciated. Thank you.