I applied for a studentship at a famous university, got shortlisted, interviewed and rejected. Three years later, the people who interviewed me started publishing papers describing how they executed my project.
I applied for a post-doc fellowship at a famous university, got shortlisted, interviewed and rejected. Two years later, they are launching a conference exploring the ideas in my proposal.
The worst part is, they don't understand the ideas, so they do a shit job.
@madeindex yes, I often have this happen. People don't get it, then later come back to me with the ideas I shared with them, but watered way down and misinterpreted.
It's kind of enlightening to see how uncreative and conformist most of academia is. There are no new insights there, all they can do is desperately go looking for other people's ideas.
@Talia haha yeah it's so sad that it's funny. I also had them come back to me asking me for advice on how to make my own misinterpreted idea better or solve a problem they were facing or help in another way 😋
I used to be upset, but now I don't worry anymore because if you are creative you can Always Always come up with new things, more than you could ever implement anyway I guess ;)
@tansy it's all frustrating. I'm very slow at publishing my work, but what has gone out is already setting new directions for fashion sustainability research. People are setting up conferences and new research groups, using my work as a foundation.
Obviously, I cannot get a job :(
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