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    1. Lewis ± MacKenzie‏ @LEMacKz Feb 2
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      Smart planning. I had zero time off. Fortunately moving post PhD I could crash with @caosnes in Leeds whilst doing a shittily-paid post-PhD but NotPostDoc job. Had zero savings though, still struggling to save tbh now that I'm renting solo and getting trains everywhere.

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    2. Hannimal  🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🏳️‍🌈‏ @hisotalus Feb 2
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      Yeah I would not have been able to save anything without doing teaching on top of the PhD. The research council funding is not really enough to even live on in Bristol without struggle. If I only had that I wouldn't have seen my family in 4 years.

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    3. Olivia Guest | Ολίβια Γκεστ‏ @o_guest Feb 2
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      Saving money during phd while paying rent is bonkers. Wow. That's impressive.

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    4. Hannimal  🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🏳️‍🌈‏ @hisotalus Feb 2
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      Honestly I think the suggestion that anyone can save a deposit is a little insensitive but then maybe I am over sensitive. You gotta be pretty privileged to get there. For me to have even saved 10k I would've had to put 30% of income into savings,when 60% of it goes to rent&bills

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    6. Hannimal  🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🏳️‍🌈‏ @hisotalus Feb 3
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      Yes, this was someone saying they bought in b’ham and “only” needed 10k. Bristol and London are on a different scale from that.

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    8. Olivia Guest | Ολίβια Γκεστ‏ @o_guest Feb 3
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      TBH I find it hard to believe they bought a place actually in a UK city for so little, but whatever.

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    9. Hannimal  🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🏳️‍🌈‏ @hisotalus Feb 3
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      ... you can get a wee flat in a good area in Glasgow for 80k.

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    10. Olivia Guest | Ολίβια Γκεστ‏ @o_guest Feb 3
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      Fair, but my point was do PhD students really have 10% of that even?

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      Olivia Guest | Ολίβια Γκεστ‏ @o_guest Feb 3
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      I just don't think PhD students can save. Like I already said I am really surprised you could.

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        2. Hannimal  🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🏳️‍🌈‏ @hisotalus Feb 3
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          I could only save because I get additional pay from teaching and because I feel like I have *had* to. I have not enjoyed saving whilst doing my PhD but I have nothing to fall back on and in my first year when I had no savings this caused a lot of sleepless nights.

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        3. Hannimal  🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🏳️‍🌈‏ @hisotalus Feb 3
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          And to be clear, my savings would not stretch toward a deposit - I have different goals. I.e. my first lot of what I managed to save went all toward my citizenship, majority of other savings have been spent on travel. It costs me ~£700-1000 every time I see family

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        4. Hannimal  🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🏳️‍🌈‏ @hisotalus Feb 3
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          Another big expenditure was when I was a bridesmaid for a good friend. It feels awful to say this but as the whole thing cost me ~£800, I wish I had declined that invitation. It really set me back and it was something I couldn't have afforded as my brother got married same summer

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        5. Olivia Guest | Ολίβια Γκεστ‏ @o_guest Feb 3
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          Yeah, I couldn't afford to pay the 800 quid to see my family during my PhD either. Thankfully they covered it.

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        6. Hannimal  🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🏳️‍🌈‏ @hisotalus Feb 3
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          I have had my mum and dad pay for things before but now they’re both retired and in ill health, they need all the money they have for themselves

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        7. Hannimal  🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🏳️‍🌈‏ @hisotalus Feb 3
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          Which is actually bad on two fronts:I get very little empathy from my family for only visiting once a year and the cause of our annual argument among siblings is how I claim to be too busy and too poor to contribute. It creates a lot of tension and my family has no idea what it’s

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        8. Hannimal  🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🏳️‍🌈‏ @hisotalus Feb 3
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          like to be doing a phd. I do envy people who get support from their family, in my family the roles are reversed and I am under constant guilt for not being supportive enough

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        9. Olivia Guest | Ολίβια Γκεστ‏ @o_guest Feb 3
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          I haven't had any support, literally any, from my family at all other than what I described. Growing up was really hard because lack of emotional support had led to some very deep, and sadly very serious, issues in my later life. So yeah, I feel you.

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        2. Olivia Guest | Ολίβια Γκεστ‏ @o_guest Feb 3
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          I was spending 70% of my PhD money on rent. And every month was right on 0 in my account. I knew if I bought anything extra I was playing with fire. I was on about 14k pre-tax in London. How could I save anything? I couldn't afford the deposit to rent a place, my parents did it.

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        3. Olivia Guest | Ολίβια Γκεστ‏ @o_guest Feb 3
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          There were times I couldn't afford to take the bus to uni and just got on anyway (if people recall the old bendy 29, you can imagine exactly how I did that). The reason was my uni was too slow in allowing me to buy discounted student fairs so I had to wait for them to process it.

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        4. Olivia Guest | Ολίβια Γκεστ‏ @o_guest Feb 3
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          Anyway, my point is it wouldn't matter what the place cost. If it was even 1k-2k, I was not able to buy it. I couldn't afford a laptop back then and was using one my parents bought me as an undergrad.

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        5. Olivia Guest | Ολίβια Γκεστ‏ @o_guest Feb 3
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          This is why my first postdoc was so liberating... I finally got a salary that was 50% (less) spent on rent and not 70%. 😭😂

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