Ha, I'm with you on the travel! Hopefully navigating my way to Australia in April 2019 but we will see how that all pans out.
I jumped straight in to a PhD from a Masters, really depends if you're passionate about what is you are studying. And I mean like, REALLY passionate as you will be researching that area for a long time and looking for research grants to fund your next projects.
For me, I did the PhD as I didn't have anything else lined up after my Degree (back in 2008). Could go on about it but hey, we are here today from the choices we've made previously :)
The community groups are pretty useful for getting a few more upvotes. You delegate your SP to them (or send Steem) and you get a bigger upvote. The more you delegate, the more you get back. Works on the "rising tide lifts all boats" principle.
Sounds pretty cool what you do with writing. I quite enjoy it myself, spend a lot of my time with a keyboard in front of me and tippy tappy :D Good luck with the agents and publishers. Send me a link over to your book :)
So what is your Masters going to be on?
Sorry for the late reply!
Australia, sweet! I was there in 2009-2010 on a Working Holiday Visa. Was mostly confined to Queensland though. :) It was quite difficult to find work though, so I didn't have the best of time. Would like to go back when I have managed to sort myself out financially again! Haha.
Yeah, I'm not sure yet. I'd like to push myself to do one (PhD), just to prove to myself that I can more than anything. But also, I'd like to get into Data Science, as that's another subject I'm really interested in and I know the university I am going to to do my Master's has a Big Data area. But, I'm not sure how it will pan out, my programming skills are a bit rusty and I know a lot of Data Science is mostly in Python (as well as others) which I never did at college, so I'm trying to self-learn that. It really depends on what happens after I've done my Masters.
And thanks, I will have a look into that! How do you get yourself into community groups?
Thank you. :) It's a long and slow process, and sometimes really painful, but it's really rewarding. Most of my work is on a website called WattPad, which I use to get feedback on from readers, you're welcome to check it out: https://www.wattpad.com/user/penny_bones16 the book I currently have published is on there (not all of it) with a link to Amazon where you can buy a copy, it's called "It's My Mistake".
My Masters is going to be in Forensic Investigation. It's modular so I get to pick a choose a few different topics from anthropology, archeaology, ballistics, explosives, digital and a few others. I'm mostly doing modules in ballistics and digital forensics.
What was your Masters/PhD in?
Hehe, don't worry about the late reply, I won't take it personally :P
Yes, that's pretty much exactly what I'm doing, the Working Holiday visa! Managed to squeeze that one in before hitting 31 and hoping to buy my tickets tonight to Aus! Got a friend in Melbourne. Do you stay in contact with anyone you met in Queensland? I have been before, did a lot of the east coast from Cairns down to Sydney in 2015 :)
I fully understand the financials! I'm kinda winging it myself but you never know what might happen.
I'm sure you will pick up the knack again, see if you can get a transfer or what your options are when you've gone in to University, it might be you can do evening classes? I really don't have much knowledge of Data software and sciences of so just trying to see what you can do logistics wise.
I just did searches on steemit - like, community for music or community for x and they pop up in the search engine. They usually have a "discord" group that you can join and introduce yourself from there. As long as you're active and you delegate SP, it's good :)
I'll have a look at your website and see what you have going on :) Sounds interesting "It's My Mistake" - got a quick synopsis?
Forensic Investigation? That sounds really interesting and completely different to what you want to end up doing with Data Science! How come you have such a variation of your course and what you're interested in?
I actually told a lie (I know, terrible)! I meant to say I went straight to a PhD from BSc but either way, my BSc was in Sports & Materials Science and my PhD continued my final year project in materials science through (making car engine components more durable) :)