I dislike my lab

Hello everyone, this my first post here, so I hope it’s okay for this.

I graduated recently with 1.5 years undergrad lab experience, and have taken my first “lab technician” job. I have been here for four weeks, and I hate it. I dread coming into work because it is so different than my previous experiences in undergrad, and I am coming to learn that maybe I do not like this work as much as I thought.

No one has trained me on the new techniques I need to perform. The last lab tech left 2 months ago, and it is difficult to perform the experiments with the notes that were left. I feel as if I am more of a post-doc than a lab tech, especially with the number of projects I am managing and how they are coordinated between different labs.

It just seems overwhelming with a lack of support and direction. The PIs I am working with don’t have the time themselves to teach new techniques, and the people within the lab are too occupied with their own projects to teach me new techniques.

The lab culture is non-existent too. I just feel like a robot to manage projects with lack of support, and it’s lonely and depressing me. I don’t want to quit because I don’t know what else to do, but this current position is killing me on the inside.

I’ve been feeling this way since the beginning of week 3, and hope it would have improved by now, but it hasn’t. The PIs around me are very hands-off and don’t check in, so it’s easy for me to get through the day doing very little.

The position just isn’t what I expected based on my undergrad experience and the interviews I had with the lab, and I really am not motivated to work in this lab.

What should I do lol?