Thank you for your kind words. I do pay close attention to my notifications and try to reply to all worthy comments.

I would say that phenomenology and existentialism are two of the few fields in philosophy that are worth anything. Alas, in the US at least, your advisor is correct that any meaningful field of philosophy is not welcome in philosophy departments.

I have added you as a writer in Original Philosophy and very much hope you will write about your thoughts. I am very open to critiques of the fad of stoicism as I have written one myself: https://medium.com/inserting-philosophy/calmly-resisting-the-fad-of-stoicism-1a5617046695