Haaa. Two profiles down. Eight more to go. Just profile or data presentation. Data analysis and interpretation will follow in a week or so.

Hard to stay motivated, eh.

Thesis on hold, again! Well, not really indefinitely. Just until I get enough sleep and I get my passport. :D I might work on it sporadically in the weekends.

Notes to self:
1. Prioritize thesis, dammit!
2. Listen to more Tambalang Balasubas at Balahura

Work has started again! I haven't had a lot of time to work on my thesis. :) I've done 3 interviews so far, and I'll probably have to do the rest via email. I don't have a lot of free time this sem, as I've started full-time already.

I'm crossing my fingers and toes that I finish this thesis by next sem so that I can finally finally GRADUATE!

One interview down, 9 more to go. Will do another one later. Thanks, moonpoolgirl, for the insightful and reflective data :D

I'm hoping to do real time interviews with my respondents. It will either be conducted over the phone or via chat. Whichever it is, we'll see how it goes. I just want this damn thesis to be over with. Aside from worrying about this thesis, the week so far hasn't been good as lots of disturbing things happened. My emotional equilibrium has been rocked and dare I say I am sunk into hypomania. :(

Anyway, hope to hear from my respondents.

Sent out my demo data sheet. Got some responses back quite promptly. Nice. Some respondents are suspicious, hesitant to give personal info. That's wise of them. Misdirected, but wise. Haha. Besides, I probably wouldn't want to give out my personal info via email. But such are the vagaries of research. Face-to-face interviews are impossible for me right now, so I have to be satisfied with the limitations of email interaction. I just need this damn thesis done. I'm so over it. :P

Data gathering is difficult, not just logistically, but more for the attitude the researcher must adopt. I'm not really a data-gathering person. I'd rather exist in my bubble, rather than disturb others in theirs. This is why I'd never be a paid researcher. I don't like data-gathering. The conceptual parts, I can handle fine. Give me a stack of journals and I can give you a kick-ass review of related literature. I enjoy doing the conceptual framework, linking variables and teasing out relationships. Data analysis also has the potential for fun. That's when all the hard work pays off. It's such a good feeling when the numbers add up and your hyothesis proves true. Or in the case of an exploratory research, when the results give a workable hypothesis.

But data gathering sucks. Period. Researcher characteristic, ladies and gentlemen.

I have decided to expand the range of my young adult participants. I'm including those who are 26-30 now. I realized that Erikson's stages say that young adulthood is 21-30 years old. Goody. Now I can include the peeps in my personal network.

So dudes, what say you?