To the Nevada boy, Happy Birthday. Hope you enjoy your day mate.
Happy Birthday Puck.... tomorrow ;)
It is tomorrow here. It's yesterday with you.
I know that Zig hence the wink ;)
What a day to celebrate, have fun.
I shall refrain from posting on this thread until it is tomorrow today.
Happy Birthday from Australia
Happy Birthday Puck
Congrats Puck
have a good one puck, sure your only a gásun
Happy Birthday Puck! ;D
Ta very much :D
lets hope you 'get some' to celebrate !
happy birthday !
hope to god ziggy isnt stalking you now...hes overloaded with hormones this past couple of weeks it seems !
:o
:D
Happy birthday Puck.
So wats the POA for the b'day celebrations?
Not much Im afraid. Just work, and then me and wee puck will be spending the evening together.
Should be grand.
well have a good one-you have 2 more years to enjoy before you are in the depths of despair like LL
many happy returns puck! :-*
Hope you have a smashing night fella
have a great day puck and little puck
THank you sir, I wish I still was in school. Change of plans for the birthday celebrations our entire lab just got sacked this morning. Boss has abandoned us and 8 futures (4students) are up in the air.
Good man Puck, hard to believe you were only 26 when I ran into you :D!
Quote from: Take Your Points on November 05, 2008, 07:26:41 PM
Happy birthday Puck!
Bad enough turning 50 last month without finding out you're 28, it only seems like yesterday that you were sitting in school.
tell us a couple of stories typ.
preferably about him wetting himself or crying or getting beat up by girls, anything along those lines.
Quote from: lynchbhoy on November 05, 2008, 05:29:05 PM
hope to god ziggy isnt stalking you now...hes overloaded with hormones this past couple of weeks it seems !
:o
:D
No amount of hormone overload would turn me.
Sorry Puck :-*
Happy birthday Puck, your a day older than me ;)
Quote from: DirtyDozen12 on November 05, 2008, 10:29:14 PM
Why is it that everyone wishes everyone a happy brithday?? Im going to do the opposite!!
Puck - have a brutal birthday...i hope you get jumpers and socks for preents ;D
Jeez - if id known your predictions were going to be right - Id have asked you to wish that I won the lotto or something.
Not lost my feckin job on my birthday - you hewer. :o
Feck it, I thought you were joking........ :(
Quote from: Puckoon on November 05, 2008, 07:44:28 PM
THank you sir, I wish I still was in school. Change of plans for the birthday celebrations our entire lab just got sacked this morning. Boss has abandoned us and 8 futures (4students) are up in the air.
f**k!
Are you postdoc now?
If you're still a grad, your university surely has to provide alternative supervision, don't they?
Happy birthday, for what its worth! :(
I wish I was TO - boss has just decided he is through with science, and is leaving for Korea in the morning. Does not know when or if he will be back
Our lab is being taken over by the chairman of the department - and everyone has until early 09 to move on. Not enough time for the students to finish, and the post docs - well they are all out on their ear. The chairman wants none of them to stay on.
My program has to provide some alternative course of action, although Ive been offered a masters degree, and at this juncture it sounds very tempting. That said, Ive come too far to "just" settle for a masters (without in any offending a masters degree).
Ive decided to stay in reno, and the job opportunities are a little more niched if I have a PhD, than just say a masters. Id really hate to be over qualified for something Id like to do, like teach or sell pharmaceuticals.
So Ive to weigh up my options and decide later this week what I want to do.
Ive had a tough ride with my boss, and him and the chairman were good friends - so I dont particularly want to go work for the chairman (if he would even help me, he's never there).
There is another professor who I am very friendly with - but he and my boss have had conflicts of interest (i.e. working on the same projects - my project! for years). He would love to have me, and would help me - Im just not sure why I still feel some sense of allegience to a professor who basically took us all into the lab this morning and told us he was abandoning ship.
To hell with loyalty to your former advisor: he dumped you at a second's notice! If this other guy will take you on and get you finished, then go for it! Put yourself first - your former boss certainly did. I presume the department will have no issue, will they? What about funding? Does that go with your former advisor, or are you on your own grant (assuming you're funded)?
As for the PhD, I wouldn't worry about being overqualified if you want to teach. You'll need it, at a minimum, to teach third level, and most high schools would probably be only too happy to take on a teacher with a doctorate, particularly given the shortage of science teachers in the US. I can't speak to the pharmaceutical option, as I don't know what kind of job you're thinking of. Overqualification can be a problem for certain jobs, but you can make your case in interviews, assuming it doesn't turn a prospective employer off.
I think my funding goes with my boss - however I did sign a one year contract through to next june. I assume my boss is still getting paid, so maybe we should. Im not sure if my contract superceedes them wanting us out by early 09.
My first port of call is with the director of my program some time tomorrow - to see exactly where I stand - regardless of the rest of them.
Unfortunately there is a great clique in my department - and quite a dislike between that department and the one i would potentially be moving to. It would be a little like Mo Johnson. There most definitely would be a departmental dislike - and while Id be sensitive to that, Im beginning to think f**k it.
Anyways, nothing another glass of paddy's wont fix in the short term. :)
Quote from: pintsofguinness on November 05, 2008, 07:48:58 PM
Quote from: Take Your Points on November 05, 2008, 07:26:41 PM
Happy birthday Puck!
Bad enough turning 50 last month without finding out you're 28, it only seems like yesterday that you were sitting in school.
tell us a couple of stories typ.
preferably about him wetting himself or crying or getting beat up by girls, anything along those lines.
I faint if I crack my elbow bone off something. I learned that at school. I got beaten up by a girl at judo once - but I was fighting out of my weight category (Ah, them were the days). Ive never wet myself.
Yet.
Fcuk that's dreadful, right in the mouth of Christmas too
I hope talking to that director tomorrow brings a little direction
or at least a bit of light at the end of the tunnel.
Tough break Puck hope you can sort something out soon,I know how your feeling too, it happened to me around christmas in 2006
Another year older and wiser im sure Puck.
Have a good day :-*
(Zig-maybe you could update the date/year)
Happy Birthday Puck, my old mate.
He's definitely older maggie, not sure about the rest thought ;)
Thanks Maggie and zig,
some life changes in one year let me tell you!
Older... Check
Wiser... Working on it.
Happy birthday puck
Happy birthday young Puck :D
Joyeux anniversaire Puck, hope this one is less dramatic!
Thanks doogie, this one is a different kettle of fish altogether.
Happy as a clam in shite.
Happy Birthday Puck. It's nice when it falls on a Friday.
Meet my friend Aurthur.
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Happy birthday Puck
Happy Birthday Puck
Lá Breithe shona duit, a Phuck ;)
Have a good one Puck.
Happy birthday Puck. While reading this thread you've aged a year - freaky.
happy birthday puck have a good one
Yeah Puck, have a good one. Happy Birthday
Quote from: Puckoon on November 05, 2009, 02:57:00 PM
Thanks Maggie and zig,
some life changes in one year let me tell you!
Older... Check
Wiser... Working on it.
I'm a clampit. I read from the start without registering the dates and thought jeez talk about bad luck losing another job around his birthday! Obviously that was last year.
Happy birthday fella.
Many happy returns Puck.
The big 30 next. :-X
happy birthday dude!
hope ya have a pucking great time ..... :P
hope you had a good birthday and i hope the other works out for you ok
Thank y'all kindly.
Now lets go have a beer. ;D