Is it normal for PhD students to do much “non research” work?
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Background: At my current institution I haven´t even officially started my PhD yet, meaning I am not even enlisted as a PhD student. I have my Bachelors and Masters already and this is in Germany so "thesis only". I also have worked here for a while now during my Masters so I know the institute well and they also know me well, what may be part of the problem as I am not "just a PhD student". The problem is that I get burried in all kinds of work like writing parts of grant proposals (many, not one or two like other questions mention) giving popular science talks about our work on any given chance presenting our work during lab tours for all kinds of guests (which happens often) writing news articles and marketing material supervising students and assistants ... It´s not that I don´