“You should have asked.”
“Yes, but I was quite desperate. They said it would be explained once I got here.”
“So you signed a work contract while you had no idea what you were supposed to do?”
“Well, I signed the contract, which was for gathering information about the language tree, I would give the information to my employers, and I would be able to write about it. As you will understand, this was most important to me, as an academic.”
“The publication?”
“Yes. You’re not an academic so you wouldn’t know, but an academic career falls or stands with what you publish and how many people reference your work. If you ask for funding, that is the first thing they will ask.”
Ah, I saw. And I guessed he had neglected this aspect and had been working on his little projects and it wasn’t import
