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My girlfriend has ran out of funding for her PhD, she's super miserable and it looks like no-one in her lab gives a sht. From what I hear the environment is super toxic, a lot of backstabbing etc. She's almost at the finish line but there is just one more experiment that needs completed but she's not getting advice on how much more work is needed so she can write the thesis and how to analyse some more specific stuff. The first supervisor is very unhelpful and her "other" supervisors haven't even bothered asking how things are going. It feels like she's been abandoned and now without funding, giving her very little motivation to complete this shtshow.

She's been thinking of quitting for some time, but it sounds like her father may be disappointed.

She's afraid that if she quits later on in life this may bite her or prevent her from having opportunities she may have if she completed it.

On the bright side she managed to secure a place in a big financial institution for a career change.

I'm not sure how to advice her and I'd really love to read any thoughts from people who may have been in this situation personally or know someone.

I know this is probably due to the pandemic + working from home. However I found that I get cold or sick much more often, specifically in the past year.

I had covid this year in October, but even before that I noticed the pattern. For four years at uni I remember getting sick like twice. This year alone I'm sick for like 5th time alone.

I do try to stay active though, I'm running 5k in the gym regularly, I've been to the gym almost 100 times this year. I'm taking multi-vitamins as well. What else can I do to avoid getting cold so often?

My girlfriend is in the field of genetics and cardiovascular sciences. She's considering a career change into programming. I've spent some time looking at free and some paid courses online, I've checked content on coursera/udemy/linkedin learning/o'reilly. It seems to me that all these courses are either someone trying to make a quick $ with minimum effort or they are targeted at people with some CS knowledge who just want to pick-up a new language.

Is there a free or paid course that is designed for a complete beginner programmers and teaches them using Java specifically. A course which gives enough exercises at each small step and support.

I'm curious to understand how my company on-call benefits compare to others. Suggested format:

Company | Location | benefits (e.g. food vouchers, pay or anything of value) | how often do you go on-call

Feel free to include anything that you find interesting in how the on-call works in your team.