Why change can be good – Part 2

It has been quite a while since I have posted anything on my research project but it’s not because I haven’t been working on it.  For the past year, while teaching full-time, writing freelance stories and taking MEd. courses, I’ve been working on this project.

I have actually finished the field work and it was an amazing experience – one that I will write about in the near future.  I have transcribed all the interviews and I am in the process of analyzing the data.

Getting to this point in my research project has not been a straightforward process though.  I had been working on an idea for sometime (as I explained in a previous post) but decided to abandon it for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it was too ambitious for a master’s project and secondly, I would need to spend sometime (perhaps months) doing fieldwork, away from my family, to complete it.  I didn’t want to do that and so I began searching for something closer to home.

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Why change can be good – Part 1

A year can seem like a lifetime when you are working on a project. I know this first hand because I’ve worked on a few in the past three years. I have to say it’s much like a relationship with parents or siblings: you absolutely love them but there are times you can’t stand to be near them.

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Luckily I mostly love my projects (and relatives!).   I find that completing the project is not the most satisfying part.  The whole party for me is having the idea and seeing it come to life.  Of course, that part is the hardest as well.

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