I hear ya.
With seminars, workshops and guff, I used to do up to 48 hrs a week on my chemistry course, while some of the artsy-types would be doing maybe seven hours a week.
The ther bugger was that Southampton gave you three weeks off at Christmas and a lot of employers wanted you for four for supermarket work.
It's worth hanging on in there, though. The Ph. D is great. I'm due to finish my first postdoc position soon and hopefully, I'm being 'promoted' to Associate Lecturer (if everything goes well with the possible new job, that is).
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 4 Apr 2009, 23:19, Reply)