Feeling down from lack of collaboration and lackluster supervision
It's a STEM phd and frankly i've been working on developing something the past few years that basically no body else can help with. Too much technical details. No problem, surely once I get enough work, things will open up right ?
Anyway finally, got a nice functional prototype and moved on toward demo and application. Initially it was an application to present the work for a paper. Here, I found a really nice idea application, quite novel and for once I felt like i am actually doing research ? Looking into litterature and spotting the potential value which looks quite promising. Moving on, we wrote the paper, reviews, yati yata, went pretty well overall and should be published in the next few weeks. Which leftme kind of annoyed, the paper would mostly present the idea and our prototype. I really wanted to continue working on the idea but, as pointed by my PI, it's out of scope, I agree but still.
Moving on, still working on the prototype, made a lot of progress and again looking for cool ideas, this time within the scope, but any time I discuss them with my PIs, you know, nothing. I guess, i understand everybody is busy with their own ideas but can't help to feel my potential is being wasted.
Well I guess it's up to me to make my dreams come true or something.