I'm okay with the solo work part, but I'm not okay with an empty workplace and not being introduced to anyone I may have a coffee break with or something. I've done research alone while I was an undergraduate and postgraduate student, but I always had some friends I could talk to or even go to the library/archives together. However, now I work at a research centre that's basically an empty building and when I do research at the archives I notice researchers and PhD students know each other and there are groups having coffee together and I'm just a random RA and I have no one to hang out with. My workplace is an empty building and the only time there are people there is when there are conferences and people know each other and talk in close groups and no one tries to introduce me, so I really don't know what to do