Nearly there mate. From experience, the sheer relief you'll feel a week on Friday will be mental, hopefully the thought of it will push you through the next ten days. I think I slept the whole weekend when mine went in at the end of 2017.
And honestly, if the thesis is fairly watertight the viva will be a walk in the park compared to the last few months. The structure sounds pretty tight - mine was eight chapters overall - intro, lit review, five main body chapters and a conclusion. Hopefully the feedback comes quickly and you can make any final alterations that you need to do sooner rather than later.
Totally agree on the industry - there was an almost £50m shortfall in Scottish universities in the last fiscal year, jobs seem to be few and far between at the moment. With that said, you've got a job waiting for you, and from your posts in here you are a metric fuckton of miles ahead of where I was at your stage in terms of the extracurricular side of things. You're also clearly good at what you do, to have published articles and - again - a lectureship waiting for you at the end, so don't let your confidence drop.
I don't really know what else to do outside of academia, and I love the teaching side of things, so I'll keep pushing on for another couple of years before I get properly disheartened I think. The thing is, I keep getting ideas for academic projects/articles that I really want to take on and explore further, so the enthusiasm is there even if the opportunity to do it full time isn't. Fortunately I'm employed in a stable job and still have the energy/understanding of those around me to keep plugging away.
strawberry float me it's getting harder though. Working full time, attending conferences at weekends and evening seminars to try and network, putting in a shift at night on articles, proposals, applications and drafts etc. is draining. Never mind my teaching responsibilities this semester(just in: 45 3,000 word essays! YAY!) planning a wedding in July(plus being best man at two other weddings this year
) and looking after the dog(tor) three or four times a week. At the moment it must be about a 60-70 hour week. Should be doing a HEA Fellowship in a month or two as well. Hopefully it'll calm down after the semester ends and I get everything submitted to various journals, prospective publishers etc.