My PhD has been unimpressive and I don’t feel confident about my work
I’m at the end of my 4th year in a 5-year bioinformatics program. All I’ve accomplished is one paper that’s still under review at a very low impact journal, I have 3 other projects that are at a weird stage but are also not very novel or impressive, just things I did because my PI made me do them. I have so many projects that went to the project graveyard because collaborators/undergrads working on them ghosted us, or because my PI’s goals changed.
I’m thinking about my next career steps. I want to do a postdoc, but my PhD has been so unimpressive, and I also want to pivot into a different field, so who the hell is going to hire me? Forget about an industry position, there’s no way I’ll be able to get one.
I’m trying to think about my PhD as just the beginning of my career, but I feel like I’ve had such a poor foundation and haven’t built the skill set I wanted to.