Did not improve job prospects, did not feel comfortable or academically supported in the transition from undergraduate to graduate student, but this could be more a symptom of my university than the experience itself. I suppose I was expecting more freedom and research choice, which is what I found in my PhD programme. In hindsight perhaps I would have taken a year off and then applied to a doctoral programme straight away, as it was what I knew I wanted to do anyway. The Master’s felt like a year of limbo.