“Hope labor”
▻https://theintercept.com/2018/05/09/just-following-orders
(...) the free work that you do in the hopes that you will eventually get paid for it.
[in journalism] But this is true in all sorts of particularly creative industries, in tech, in all sorts of places where you have to do a whole lot of sort of investing in building up human capital so to speak, right, to get a job at all.
New term for me. I’d definitely add Academia to that list.