system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
3rd try with PhD or industry?

Dear Reddit readers,

i hope you can give me some advice.

I have a master in biotechnology. I worked on my 1st PhD project for 8 months. I like my project ,but I couldn't work well in the team so I quit. (Believe me, it was a nightmare, I cried almost every week because of lab politics and drama). I didn't give up and applied again for a new PhD position. I started my 2nd PhD project in another group, where my scientific background is quite different from what they do. They promised that I would have time to learn. But after 5 months, they shut down the project and convinced me to sign a termination agreement so that I would stop working within 2 weeks (luckily, I didn't sign). They claimed that I should have learned everything and be dependent within the last months, even a bachelor student could have done what I did. Anyway, I was played dirty and kicked out for no reason. It was quite a mess, even the university advisor told me so.

So I ask around and 1 professor agrees to take me in his group as a PhD student. But he doesn't have any funding right now. He can pay me a little bit but it is not a position (I'm based in Germany. Normally, you work as a PhD student and get paid for it). He will get funding in December, but everything is not 100% sure. I may have to apply for scholarship as well. It is quite risky since I am not German and need a residence permit. Without a position, it is difficult to get a residence permit. 

I also applied for jobs in the industry and got some interviews. Maybe I will get a well-paid job.

&#x200B;

What do you think? Do you think I should try the 3rd time with a PhD? I kind of lost my confidence after I was kicked out from the 2nd PhD. Meanwhile, I know that I'm not stupid (I graduated with very good grade) and I think I will able to make it. I'm just very worried about the risks of getting nothing after several months and having to return to my home country with no money left.

Thank you in advance.
gpt
No just go to industry at this point. Getting a PhD is not the end all be all. And it sounds like whatever field you're in already has a lot of instability, why do you want to end up in it forever if you can't even get steady funding for a PhD position?