A huge rant but.. if you can give me advice I'd be very grateful!
So I'm a third year PhD student (in biology) with a Masters degree already. I joined my current PhD program to work for a specific PI and to take on a specific project. When I started I had a list of questions that I needed to answer, which shaped the project.
I was under the impression that if I worked hard (and by hard I mean insane amount of hours) that I would finish when the project was "completed" and not after a set amount of years. Anyways, after 2 years I have answered all of the original questions with great results, however my PI has decided to add more questions to my project. Although they are related, they are very time intensive and will add another 3 years to finish.
I have been told to not work as much (more like 40 hours per week), but that seems to be a waste of my time when I could be more productive and move on to a postdoc quicker!
I am wondering if anyone has been in a similar situation and how you handled it.
