Hello all, my postdoc will come to an end at the end of August with the possibility to extend until December.
It's been good, the people are nice and I feel like I grew professionally. However I feel now that I'm obsolete between the other postdocs and the PhD students. We're working toward the same goal, slightly differently, but this means that there is a lot of superposition of skills and tasks. The unique part that I can do (and have to do) requires quite a lot of waiting from the other people or collaborators and I don't think I'll do much of it until the end. But in the meantime I'm not doing anything "productive".
Now don't get me wrong, I'm doing bibliography, trying to write a review paper, applying for grants or jobs...but professionally I don't have a lot of mobility now (I did until couple of months ago and had great results). If I do some thing extra I am either "stealing" from others, or doing a worse job than them, like simulations which is not my strength. Also don't know if it's the best for people working simultaneously and independently on same thing.
Is this normal? Did others go through this step as well?