All the other first years have day-to-day supervision and specific projects, where they'll be looking a specific peptides and their effect on a particular physiologoical paramter. Right now I just feel like a technician and its making me crazy! I am a highly motivated positive person with lots of ideas and a strong love for science and discovery but right now i feel extremely depressed, -something i love is now becoming something i hate and dread.I did really well at university and with my honours project, my goal is to become a clinician scientist (do an MBchB after my phd).I really don't know where to go from here.I'm not sure how it will affect my reputation/future if I leave (apparently no-one in the lab has ever left).The professor although notorious for money-grabbing and neglectful ways, also has lots of contacts in the science world.

IWhen I had my phd interview I had already had 6 months experience doing a paid project in another lab so i knew the subject area (endocrinology).When i started i was given a job which required me to do the same assay everyday for someone else's work.As you can iamgine after 4 months I was losing enthusiasm.I was then placed onto a project where my role is basically pharmaceutical screening- doing the same assays everyday,as the professor of my lab wants to eventually release this agonist as a drug.Currently I have no supervisor as my original supervisor is not interested in this project. I was originally told I would be undertaking an exciting project in physiology but now I am doing routine assays, the project has no interest for me. I have told the professor how I feel but he has this way of manipulating me to carry on.I want to leave but I'm not sure how to go about it.