>> My mum seriously wanted me to do a PhD. Because, I mean, 6 years in 


> Most people here get paid to do a PhD, I can not imagine that it is much 
> different in the UK. And your mum may be right a PhD would fit you 
> better than your current job.

A tiara made of thorns would fit me better than my current job! ;-)

My mum also wanted me to do an A-level in mathematics. Because, as you 
know, everybody wants employees with qualifications in mathematics. Oh, 
wait...

> One major problem is that you don't want to move. Your current home town 
> is not exactly a hot spot of computer science research.

Oddly, my home town isn't exactly a hot spot of... anything. I really 
can't begin to imagine why. Maybe because it hasn't been here very long 
yet? *shrugs*

> Another problem is your pathological lack of self esteem (or at least 
> the constant public display of it).

Pathological? Maybe. Lack? Incontravertably! :-/

> Any sane person would not have 
> referred to 'my pathologically weak writing skills' after all that has 
> been said over the last few days.

I said I'm bad at writing "large" documents - which is presumably what a 
final PhD thesis is. Also, all of my work at uni that involved any 
element of what academics refer to as "research" was extremely hard for 
me. I have no idea what "research" actually is, or how you're supposed 
to do it. As I understand it, a PhD is 82% research...

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