I have had a problem motivating myself to work. I would say generally I like my job as a physicist. However, 9 years passed since I got my PhD. Now I can see my career is stable. I would say it has been successful and I am grateful but I feel this is too stable. I still like what I do. Maybe everyone experiences after 10 years of career.
One thing I am looking forward to seeing is my editorial board member job (although no pay..). That gives me a whole direction so that I can contribute to science. I should spend some time working on this. That would give me more chance to make a good career. As an editorial job, I could improve my writing and reading skill as well as understanding my fields of science. Also, I can have the opportunity to do the networking.
Now I am feeling I want to build skills in writing. Since I can be a scientist and can speak English. By combining these skills, I would like to work on another skill. That would be writing. What kind of writing I would like to do? I don’t know. Maybe I can write physics, philosophy, investing, books, and so on. By teaching what I understand is a way to understand better.
I am excited to see if I can help some other people achieve what they want. However, at the same time, I would like to pursuit study. That should be a core I should never forget. I am writing two papers, I should finish them and I should work on these papers every day. The first thing I want to do is keep writing my scientific paper. Then everything is going to strengthen. Now, I feel it.
Now I understand. What I like to do the most is writing paper by writing so far. Then I understood what the problem is. Because the writing is hard. I am struggling every day. But I should keep struggling with writing papers. I like to do it. By writing more I can help other scientists more. So always, I have to spend the most time writing up the paper. I should finish them one by one. That is the single most thing I should do every chance I get. Everything is a secondary problem.