>>12990870>But why? Because no one thought you were worth funding. You are being used and everyone knows it. You probably won't even get a strong Letter of Recommendation from your supervisor.
It is even more pathetic than an actual unpaid internship slave labour.
>Surely you're doing the same work, No, you are not doing professional work. You are not employed. You are wasting time. You are on the same level as some retired grandma that wants to do her PhD in the Food Science History of the Crepe or whatever. Sure it might be interesting to some retard, but it's not going to be important to future potential employers whether that's for postdoc positions or private research.
>all that PhD funding/scholarship means is that some wealthy organisation or individual has an interest in whatever field you're doing research inFunded positions are a sign that the research project is important to society or at least to the research community. For something to be funded it has to be of either fundamental or theoretical value. These projects are competative to get because it is important so they will not typically waste the funding on something of subpar quality.
