![]() ![]() I briefly look into applying for PhDs but to get funding I’d have to teach undergraduates alongside my research, which I convince myself I am not capable of doing. ![]() ![]() Over the next few weeks I spend a lot of time thinking things like ‘I’m not good enough’, ‘I’m never going to get a graduate job’, ‘What’s the point in applying for anything else?’, ‘Life is so hard – it’s not fair’. They liked me and would have given me the job, except one of the other candidates had a PhD while I only had an MA. The interview had gone well but I’d just received a phone call to tell me that I hadn’t been successful. Earlier that day I’d had an interview for my dream job as a Research Assistant in the History Department at Leicester University. It’s 2002 and I’m sitting in Leicester railway station, crying my eyes out on the phone to my mum. Prior to this, she worked in a diverse range of roles, including university administration, publishing and as an English Language Teacher in Japan. Jo Horton joined the university as a Careers Adviser in May 2019, having completed the Postgraduate Diploma in Guidance Studies the previous year. ![]()
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