Nimrod81, you hit the point. I didn't want to offend anyone.
Simply, in Italy if you aren't very young and/or you don't have the right contacts, you don't have many possibilities.
Of course I could move out of Italy, but it's too difficult for me (new language, new culture, added to the already difficult phd course). Anyway, maybe the whole researcher career was too difficult.
What strikes me is that you seem to regret that you left your PhD mainly because now you don't have "contacts"! In other words as if you saw you PhD as a way to make "contacts" rather than to gain certain skills, increase your knowledge of your topic etc. The importance of networking while doing your PhD (or in general) will never be emphasized too much, but honestly, I think there are better and simplest ways of making contacts than struggling for 3 years trying to produce research.
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