Today PI and I did some major work to get a new project going. It relied heavily on my expertise, which is quite different from that of anyone else in the group. My old lab group could have done what I did, but they just don't have the time to help initiate new projects like this one. The whole point of me doing this postdoc was to bridge between my old group and the new group to make work like this happen.
It felt really good to use my skills to do the thing I was hired to do. I felt valuable. In addition, it felt good to do something familiar after months of working outside my comfort zone.
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Yay!
I know what you are talking about. I also changed fields after my PhD and often fear that the graduate students in my group will know more than me, on my current topics of interest. But every now and then- I get a chance to sparkle, and it feels great. Now I just have to cover ALL bases! ;)
Take care.
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