Had a low research output due to a bad student-supervisor relationship and the fact that the topic was switched twice but still had to finish in more or less the same time.
Field: applied Machine Learning (Engineering)
Very long story.
My relationship with my supervisor has been extremely rocky. We switched topics twice (first time because they were asking me to do projects outside the scope of our initial agreement, second simply due to bad luck).
Even though I have enough results to finish and 3 publications (which are more or less the same) every time I tried to make the research interesting, I would be met with risk aversion and caution, which led to many discounts and the research is not at all interesting anymore.
I got an offer as a R&D engineer. I told them I'll join after the PhD, but honestly, every time I try to work on my thesis, my resentment towards the whole story makes me numb. The only fun part about the research are the tools I'm using to do writing.
I plan on quitting, working for a few years and then applying for a PhD again (unless I feel settled in my new job).
My only fear is whether that will be a bad signal to future PIs.
I'm in Scandinavia, by the way.
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>!This scene with Ryland getting drunk while "Sunday Morning" song is playing and then when he goes through the stuff of his dead crew is just... Almost hauntingly nostalgic and beautiful. !<