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[erinthewanderer]

nothing like having your funding threatened to make you feel alone. man, what a shitty way to end a day. so i'm up at 2am fretting because i feel that i have no options or alternatives, no saftey net. honestly i do, but at times like this rational thought isn't exactly the order of the day. i'm trying not to freaak out but given my track record

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[propagator]

Who'sawhatnow?

What's the deal with the funding? Like, is it your funding in particular? Or is it the group as a whole?

"Yeah, what in Pete Sampras is going on around here"

[erinthewanderer]

nope, it's me. apparantly, i've been expected to show some significnt results in 4 months with the group, as opposed to almost everyone else in the group who has bene there for over a year and done about as much as me. i guess that i was supposed to be some prodigy or something. but i haven't really had any direction or guidance from my boss, and now he's all "what have you accomplished?" and when i say "i've done everything you told me to do, which is right around nothing" he isn't happy. whatever.

[propagator]

So, after four months, he's threatened to cut your funding off? Is he throwing you out of the group, or just expecting you to TA?

Am I gonna have company in the private sector soon?

[erinthewanderer]

it's possible. i'm still not sure if this is an empty threat ("motivational speech" in his mind) or if he really is tired of my shit. we'll see.