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> How did your supervisor managed his subordinates so they wound not spend their time in leisure activities? They are not there to babysit, and many want self motivated people. If you spend your time doing leisure activities, you will either spend too much time getting the PhD, or simply not get it. Also, in large enough research groups, the advisor delegates almost everything to postdocs. I knew one guy who, every t…
This seems very much US and academic field specific. Here in Europe when I did my PhD in physics the supervisor is the boss designing the project and giving out orders on tasks to be accomplished. As somewhere in this thread one mentioned it is a true apprenticeship. It is though very much opposite of what new PhDs expects judging that from my own experience, conversations and confronting my supervisor who eventually…
Many (most?) professors in the US are the same. The other kind, though, is not that rare.