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As a reply to my "Secondary Acknowledgements", Stygius suggested my I should get a break from Economics. I couldn't agree more, I recognize my MSc studies have depleted my energy.
However, seems that the "destiny" or whatever is out there that has some influence in our live, has decided I shouldn't. On friday, I posted (in Spanish- I am sorry for my English readers, I suggest you use the I'm tranlator button to make out some of my writing in spanish) that I had been offered a teaching and research assistantship in some university in Switzerland.
After a weekend full of anguish and calls from both my father and my mother (my father, saying "I am big enough to make my own decisions, but is a GREAT opportunity" and my mother saying "I should take that position-GREAT opportunity-swiss banks-possible future swiss husband") to give me their wise advice, I decided that I was too run down to proceed, in a month and a half, with a Ph.D programme (meaning MORE courses and exams for another year, at least), but that I would have been delighted to do some research for them, just to give it a try. That's what I told the people down there, thinking they would simply let me go.
BUT NOT. I was day-dreaming that the best that could happen is that they considered my MSc courses valid for their Ph.D, so that I could only take a few seminars and concentrate on my research. Well, that is precisely what has happened. And not only that, the whole workgroup seems so interested in meeting me that they offered to pay my accomodation for two days so I can go and visit.
So... I guess I'm going to see the place, and then I'll decide. I'll keep you informed, but of course I love to hear your views on the matter.
I'll continue posting about both the academic and personal implications of this decision in the next few days.
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