As soon as Luo Xiu entered the door, he heard Yang Tianqi shouting bitterly: "Pudding, why did you leave me!"

"Is Pudding a senior's girlfriend?"

Luo Xiu asked Li Shan in a low voice.

"Last time, I heard the senior say that his girlfriend seems to be called Mikoto Misaka. ”

Zhao Jianye next to him immediately objected fiercely: "Nonsense, Sister Pao is my wife." ”

Yang Tianqi carefully picked up a piece of hair on the table, "Pudding is the name of my hair, her sister Milk Tea just left us yesterday, I didn't expect it to be her turn today, I didn't take care of them." ”

After the senior finished speaking, he gently used his fingers to arrange the last strand of hair that was left of his fruit.

"What did you come to me for?"

"Senior, we want to make an APP, I don't know if you have a ......"

Before Luo Xiu finished speaking, he was rudely interrupted, "Why do you have to look for us, please go find an outside company to do it! I really don't want to take this kind of job anymore, I just want to graduate with a doctorate soon!"

Yang Tianqi said as he pulled his hair with his hand, and then carefully let go, confirming that no new hair had fallen out, and he breathed a long sigh of relief.

"What does it have to do with us whether you can graduate or not?"

Luo Xiu was a little confused.

"That's right. Zhao Jianye pulled Luo Xiu aside, "With Senior Yang's ability, he should have graduated with a doctorate a long time ago, but his mentor, that Professor Zhong, did not let him go, treating him as cheap labor." ”

As soon as he said this, Luo Xiu understood.

Many doctoral supervisors will take jobs outside, and then hand them over to their doctoral students to do it for him, and take most of the project funds themselves.

This would have been a normal phenomenon and there was nothing to blame.

After all, under the leadership of their mentors, these students have also learned knowledge and gained experience.

What is excessive is that some tutors pressure students not to send papers, snatch students' thesis results, and let students postpone graduation, in order to use two more years of cheap labor.

Just like the previous project of Fantuan, Yang Tianqi led the students to work until ten o'clock in the evening every day, sacrificing countless hairs before it was finally completed.

In the whole project, Professor Zhong basically did not come forward to guide, but took away 190,000 yuan of research funds, and only left 10,000 yuan for the group of students, with an average of about 1,000 yuan per student.

This income is not as good as part-time helpers, such as customer service.

At least working part-time as a customer service doesn't have to lose your hair.

Professor Zhong doesn't have to do anything, and he can easily earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a month.

The world is like this, at a certain level, your income and effort are no longer positively correlated.

Yang Tianqi, who worked hard, could only get money that could only keep him from starving. And Professor Zhong, who drinks tea and chats in the office every day and occasionally takes a class or two, can have amazing wealth.

Luo Xiu walked up to Yang Tianqi and asked seriously, "Have you ever thought about leaving your mentor and going out on your own?" I can give you this opportunity. ”

"You mean to make me give up on graduation?"

Yang Tianqi's eyes hesitated.

"It's up to you to keep working for your mentor and wait for him to show mercy and let you graduate, or leave your mentor now and use your skills and abilities to make money. ”

Except for a diploma, the tutor has no binding effect on him.

With his current skills, he can get a high salary here in Luo Xiu right away.

Staying here will only consume the most energetic time of your life.

Especially a code farmer like himself, he has wasted a few more years of studying for a doctorate than others, and if he continues to waste like this, when he really comes out to work, he will be over 30 years old, and his energy will begin to decline, even compared to those students who have just graduated from undergraduate.

However, if you give up now, wouldn't it be in vain to do so much work for your mentor before?

Have you wasted a few years of time that you have invested in it?

Bear with it a little longer and get the graduation certificate in hand, not only to give an explanation to yourself for so many years of hard work, but also to your parents.

Parents worked hard to provide for their own education, but they dropped out of school halfway through, and they really didn't know how to explain it to them.

Yang Tianqi did not make a decision immediately.

Luo Xiu didn't force him, gave him two days and let him think about it.

Not everyone has the courage to change their original life plan without major changes.

......

At 6:20 a.m. the next day, Yang Tianqi was woken up by an alarm clock.

Professor Chung asked him to report to the laboratory at 7 a.m. every morning to start his day's work.

In the past few years of his Ph.D., he has gotten up earlier than chickens, slept later than dogs, eaten worse than pigs, and worked more than cows!

But now it's much better, and at the beginning, he had to go to his mentor's house to help clean the toilet.

Now this kind of work is done by younger brothers and sisters.

Yang Tianqi clocked in and entered the laboratory, turned on the computer, and recalled yesterday's conversation with Luo Xiu.

After a night of cooling, the impulse of yesterday is gone.

He is accustomed to being oppressed in this life, and it is the least bad choice to get his graduation certificate again.

And I have done so many things for my mentor, I should be about to get through it.

Later, I will ask him when his paper can be published and when he can participate in the defense.

Yang Tianqi was typing the manuscript, thinking about how to talk to the tutor, and was called into the room by the tutor.

"Boss, what are you looking for me?"

Zhong Liqun threw a document to him, "There is a software development here, you go and pull a few people to make it for me within a week." ”

"Boss, this time is a bit tight, my last development hasn't been completed yet?"

Zhong Liqun tapped his fingers on the table and asked in a heart-wrenching voice: "I have given you enough time, are you serious about your work?

"There's a technical problem that I haven't figured out yet. ”

Yang Tianqi explained in a low voice.

"If you don't figure it out, then give me time to figure it out, you left before 9 o'clock last night, I thought you had nothing to do. ”

"I ...... last night"

Yesterday was Yang Tianqi's 29th birthday.

There was a girl who had always had a crush on him who said that she was going to celebrate his birthday, booked a restaurant, and waited for him to come over.

It was only when his mentor left the lab that he was able to slip away early.

But when he arrived at the restaurant, the girl had already left because she had waited for him too long.

"I was a little unwell last night and went back to my dorm to rest. ”

Yang Tianqi changed his reasoning.

If you have a birthday and want to go on a date with a girl, you will definitely be sarcastic and sarcastic by your mentor when you say it.

"What's going on with you lately? Work is getting more and more out of shape, do you want to graduate?"

[Do you still want to graduate], these eight words are like a spell, making Yang Tianqi's feet tremble.

He wanted to keep himself from shaking, but he couldn't control it.

Master's degree plus Ph.D., a total of seven years.

The last time I attended the reunion of my undergraduate classmates, many of them had successful careers, families and children.

Some people come in luxury cars, and some people buy a second home.

They are talking about the ups and downs of the stock market and the business market this year.

As a top student in the class, the only thing Yang Tianqi can say is that he is about to graduate with a doctorate.

Seven years of youth.

Just for that diploma.