Living with Data

I would like to get a job, a well paid one. I would like to have enough money to really enjoy myself. I think I have gradually switched to the student mentality, this is not for me, I have gray hair and I am sick of this PhD thing. As I am supposed to write another lit rev I am realizing I do not give a shit about all of this. This is too distant from my plans.

I am bargaining over the title of the part-time job. Probably this is putting me in a bad position. I have the feeling that they want to withdrawal the offer. At the end of the day it would not be that terrible since the pay is awful. It’s incredible, I think that at this moment the biggest weakness for my job applications are my references. This sounds stupid though. If you want something, you gotta reach out and grab it.

The first lit rev was not that bad after all. The meeting was ok but I have to do another literature review. February 8th I will present the data project at the uni. I am struggling with the final application but it looks good. I am curious to see the reactions. February 20th is my turn at the phdseminar. I need to sit and write.

Immediately after the interview for the consultant position I realized how badly I wanted that job. I did not get it. Instead I received an offer for the part time one. I am now waiting for the HR call, I am planning to bargain my job title.

This weekend I will finalize the application for project US. I managed to get references from U and N. For some reason I am not thrilled, and BTW I am sick of asking for references though.

Still no news about money for the ML workshop. I think they want me to give it for free. I will, but I will also spit on their face at the first occasion.

I am not coding. Like at all. I am writing a lit rev which is terrible and useless instead. I have in mind how to rewrite it in order to make it more useful (maybe). Suicidal supervisory meeting later this week. I hate it here.

I have applied for two jobs, a part time and a full time one. This week I have the informal interview for the full time statistical consultant position. I am curious to see how far I can get with this kind of application. On the 20th I have the interview for the part time. For this one I am curious to hear what the job is about.

The workshop on ML has been confirmed. I am thrilled but I still have to get info about money.

Got the hpcp and python ML training. Good for project US.

Research looks on the right path: I have a structure in place and I have good research ideas already discussed with my supervisors. Now the boring part is about reading the literature, theory and all the fuss. I do not like the department and I am self-censoring a lot. However the research seems promising so let’s see how far I can go.

I attended my first RDojo and it was great in the sense that I realized that 1) My coding skills are not even decent 2) In London there are people who are very good in what they do. I must defeat my laziness and leverage this opportunity to improve myself. RDojo are good.

Hopefully I will run a workshop on predictive modelling during the spring.

The uni is paying for my training in ML with python. This should help me with project us.

I got a place for training in hpcp at the uni. Great.

I am still setting up my research but I have found an interesting stream of reading material and probably I have a couple of feasible and interesting ideas. I am stuck with the topics identification/corpus refinement for U.N. project.