How to keep myself on track towards a PhD despite severe lack of funds and uncooperative supervisor during my master's?
I had straight A's during my first year of Master's in Mechanical Engineering and chose the professor as the supervisor who was extremely knowledgeable and quite polite. Several people told me to not approach him but I did anyways because I thought I could handle the challenge.
But the challenge was his refusal to guide you until you produce any substance and refusal to fund even the most basic stuff.
Due to poor infrastructure, my work suffers and I doubt I'll be able to produce a very good experimental work. That prevents me from building a solid profile. Also because of that I'm pretty sure he won't be providing me a letter of recommendation, he would want to have me as his PhD student so that I would do his other stuff.
I have a job lined up in manufacturing of aerospace parts after my master's ends but I need my supervisor to approve my work. Moreover, I wanted to do a good work so that I could have the possibility of a PhD later if I wanted to pursue but without my master's supervisor willing to write a LOR makes me very less helpful.
So I need advice on what should be my next steps.