Considering the Journey: One Doctor’S Perspective
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Jeffrey T. Evans DHA
Considering the Journey was written to help perspective doctoral and PhD candidates get an idea of what to expect about the Doctoral Journey before signing on the dotted line from a person that made the journey. The author speaks from his experience of not knowing much about the journey before he began and how he fields questions from those that ask him about the experience before they make the decision to start a program. This is an invaluable guide that a perspective candidate can truly benefit from before making the commitment of time and money that they cant get back once they begin the journey. The authors insight is a personal one that only speaks to his individual experience as he negotiated the hurdles of the journey. This book is a true eye opener and a must read for candidates before they decide to begin the journey.
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Considering the Journey - Jeffrey T. Evans DHA
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Contents
Dedication
Preface
Chapter One – Introduction
Chapter Two – Why My Journey Began
Chapter Three – Considerations
Finances
Time Management
Family/Personal Life
Career
Ambition
Reasons
Chapter Four – My Story
Chapter Five – Motivation and Advice
About the Author
Dedication
I am dedicating this book to the memory of my late former spouse and lifelong partner Debbie, who entered into eternal rest shortly before the completion of this book. I spent 43 years with her, 35 married and the rest as partners in life. She would encourage me to pursue my dreams and helped me believe that I could accomplish them. Her encouragement and loving memory will always be in my heart. May she rest eternally in God’s arms. This one’s for you Deb-Deb.
Preface
Jeffrey, this is Dr. T, now that you have finished your dissertation what do you think will be your next project?
I replied I want to write a book about the thought process that goes into deciding to pursue a Ph. D or a doctorate degree. I’ve had several people ask me that question over the past few years and I’ve had the opportunity to tell it like I see it
.
This was how the final moments of the oral defense for my doctorate degree played out after about 15-20 minutes of my presentation. Although I was, at that time, trying to answer the question with the best possible answer I could think of I was voicing the idea for this book. In my preparation for the oral defense I came across this question several times in researching what type of questions are asked on oral defenses. I honestly didn’t think that I had the energy to write a book as my next project after the long seven years it took me to finally finish my doctorate. After writing endless nights during the didactic phase and throughout the process of writing my dissertation I felt that I would never sit in front of a computer and write anything again. But, I can honestly say that I started to miss sitting in front of that computer night after night trying to make sense of my thoughts. Seven long years was actually preparing me for the task of writing a book one day, something that I marveled about for many years.
The idea of this book got started as a result of me trying to answer a possible oral defense question from my dissertation. I was advised to figure out what type of project I would like to do after completing my degree. So, I thought that over the past few years I have been asked by friends and colleagues what should they consider when deciding if they should pursue a PhD or doctoral degree. I have advised several that have gone on to begin the journey and a few that decided after they talked to me and saw what I was going through to not start a course.
After finally graduating I became involved with a doctoral support group to help assist those that were going through the journey as a way to give back to the process. I offered my assistance to this group and found out pretty quickly that others in this group had experienced the same thoughts that I had about getting into this program. One of the guest speakers to the group helped inspire me to get started on this book because I felt that this is a message that perspective doctoral candidates needed to hear before making the decision to pursue this degree.
When I came up with the idea for this book there were two other perspective authors that planned to contribute their experiences to give the book more depth. However, due to other commitments they were unable to work with me on this, so I ended up going solo on this project. As a result, the book turned out to be much shorter in length than I originally planned which in my humble opinion makes for a shorter read and more comprehendible for the reader.
The intent of this book is to give the reader a perspective answer to the question of considering the journey, not a thick book breaking down every element and aspect of this question in excruciating detail. A big book might have missed the mark on this. I could have chosen to do more in depth research on this topic as I was taught to do in my doctoral program but I didn’t want this to read like an analytical book or quantitative study about the data that describes statistically the breakdown of people that start a program and how many people don’t and the many reasons why. That would make for a good study. Actually, there is data out there that shows this breakdown from a statistical standpoint.
I hope that this book helps a perspective student see some of the important aspects of considering the journey and helps them make an informed decision if this is for them or not. If I accomplish that I have met the reason why I put this book in your hand and library. Now sit back and enjoy the journey.
Chapter One – Introduction
Considering the Journey – One Doctor’s Perspective is a book that reveals the experiences and perspectives from one doctor’s viewpoints of what is referred to as the Doctoral Journey
. The idea for writing this book came from many conversations with students, friends, and perspective doctoral candidates that were considering pursuing a doctorate or PhD degree but had no idea of what to expect. What I have found out from these conversations is that there is a lot that is not commonly known about the process to attain this level of education. The majority of people that ask that question had no idea of what to expect. Many seemed very surprised when I told them what I had gone through to achieve this degree. I’ve also realized that many of the people in the doctoral or PhD program had no idea of what they were actually themselves getting into when they enrolled in a program.
For these and many similar reasons are why this book was written. It is to give a perspective doctoral candidate an idea of what to expect before signing on the