The teaching would have been paid for the one he refused to let me do. The one for him would be unpaid.
The purchasing takes more time and is not paid.
He expects me in the office 9-5 but it is full of distractions as it is mainly post-doc researchers in there. I will work evenings once or twice a week, plus I am a first year PhD and I realise the workload increases massively very soon. People who are further than me into a PhD (some have recently finished) tell me that the first year can be kept mostly 9-5 hours.
Thanks for the replies so far guys
. It would be interesting to know what each of you do for a living as I am getting plenty of different opinions.
So you are worried about not getting it done in the time allowed, but you can spare some time for teaching because you get paid for that?
You are worried about not finishing in time already, to the point where one afternoon a week will be make or break, but you only do 9-5.
You think that the workload is going to increase massively, yet you aren't working very hard now to lessen it? And you already seem to have a problem with doing a 9-5?
Do you realise that if you did 9-6 (which as you have gathered from this thread, isn't a lot by PhD standards) then that would make up for the one afternoon a week?
How is an office full of distractions when you're looking at your monitor and have headphones on? Are post docs talking to you to distract you from work? They're like no post docs I have ever met if they are.
People tell you that a first year can get away with 9-5, so what? Do you think that your PhD is just a continuation of your undergrad and it's a party? You might be a first year graduate but you certainly aren't a "fresher" this isn't party time. If you don't need to work very hard this year, aren't you the perfect candidate to be the "supplies bitch"?
If you object to doing the purchasing so much, have you actually raised this with your supervisor?
What is your PhD on anyway? And you're at Keele I take it?