You're talking about technical work, not biology. The same applies to any number of other domains. Sounds to me like you just have a chip on your shoulder.
Nobody gets a PhD for doing lab work. People get PhDs for publishing papers and they do lab work because there isn't enough grant money or capable techs for doing really hard experiments.
Well, people get PhD for it. Tell them its not biology :-)
>>just have a chip on your shoulder
Yeah, I blame the academic system