Quote From Dunham:
I like your positive attitude but one always reads the same stuff "I learned so many things in my PhD, I will make my way". Everybody thinks like this, but obviously it is not true.
I think there is a difference in thinking like this and doing something about it. I hope the difference is that if you take advantage of the opportunities that you will you be rewarded.
For example, even though I am not getting paid this year and it might be sensible to write my thesis as quickly as possible, I have still submitted a paper and presented at conferences. I am still trying to get some additional results to improve another paper that I am going to write.
I look at some of the other PhD students in my lab, some of whom are being paid in their 4th year, and they went to conferences but didn't bother to present something, and they haven't bothered to write up their results into a paper. Then they complain that they don't get offered interviews.
Time will tell I guess.
