> Your adviser almost certainly has funding sources that support the work, This depends a lot on the advisor and the field. I just wrapped up an engineering P

> Your adviser almost certainly has funding sources that support the work, This depends a lot on the advisor and the field. I just wrapped up an engineering Ph.D., which I came within inches of bailing on. While I had funding for the first four years, it was for unrelated work. For the last two years, I got a job outside of the university. All I got from my advisor in terms of support for my doctoral research was access to the computing resources I needed.