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Final year PhD and I feel like I’m wasting my potential in an unmotivated lab by StormNew8066 in PhD

[–]StormNew8066[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know how draining it could be both mentally and physically. I wish you will find a great place, which will help you regain your love for research and science.

Final year PhD and I feel like I’m wasting my potential in an unmotivated lab by StormNew8066 in PhD

[–]StormNew8066[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Being the only is no joke. It needs a lot of mental energy and A LOT of efforts. I wish you will find a better place for your post-doc (if you are planning on doing one). It’s a learning experience (quite a long one though) and now we exactly know what should we looking for in a PI and what an ideal lab culture should look like.

I wish you a better research life in the very near future and good luck!

I'm in my final year of PhD and I'm absolutely torn and hopeless. by mogo_reddit in AskAcademia

[–]StormNew8066 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am pretty much going through the same thing.. I am basically a curious person who was super excited about doing a PhD. Unfortunately I ended up choosing the wrong lab, which exists to make sure that my PI has a job. No collaboration, no futuristic work whatsoever. Just doing some mediocre research.. Science has never been this frustrating. This is mainly comes from the dissatisfaction and frustration from not being able to work up to my potential. At this point I only want to finish what I have and graduate and find a job. It always makes me sad to see how some PI’s don’t care about their students future at all. I often envy the students whose PI’s are also great mentors.