Tuesday is gone now. Three days left before I go on my holiday. Interestingly, I am not feeling that excited. Maybe because I don’t have a good plan yet or I am thinking I have something left to be done in 2021. But let’s enjoy the good break. 2021 was a terrible year but we got so much to learn.
Recently I have been asked to be an external reviewer of a professorship position in some universities in some countries. In short, I have to write a report of the evaluation of the candidate. I am horned to be the reviewer and I would like to do a good job. Also, there is some cash incentive to be paid. I basically have a month to prepare the report and write a letter. I feel I am lucky enough to be asked to do this job. That would be a great help to get my promotion in the future. By serving as a reviewer, I can see what kind of achievement I should do for myself.
I believe writing a good paper that has an impact in the field would be of great help. Also, teaching and educating good students are also important. I will definitely consider them. Also, a good relationship with colleagues is important too. By going through this should be able to understand more about the impact of good education and science.
I am lucky enough to be a scientist. I am not a good scientist but I should never give up trying to be a good one. I should have given up several things I am not good at to be a good scientist while I should be able to find something I can actually do some help to do good science. I should have curiosity all that time, I should enjoy doing experiments where is my source to learn and innovate. Writing like this, help me to think clearly. I should keep experimenting so eventually I can be a good experimentalist and possibly I can create some good science.
How many years have passed since my PhD? It is almost 10 years. Umm. I thought I should have been much better but it seems not. But recently I finally feel I am getting somewhere and I am feeling I am getting out something from all effort I have done. So I am having fun. In the next 5-10 years, I would love to spend time writing more especially the paper. Otherwise, I will lose this capability. If I can write papers, I will enjoy working on science for life. I can do research, I can do experiments, I can do some calculations, so writing is the final part of my skill I should nurture. So let’s write papers. I always come back here. I am saying this again and again. Somehow I am not doing this on my desk. Never stop trying.
I also never stop working on reading textbooks, I should do more, to be honest, also I would love to teach somewhere so I can understand better myself. So the next 5 years are important, it should be the most productive time in my life for work while I will keep improving the productivity in terms of money to get ready for retirement if I have my family to take care of. So I also don’t have time to work in the future so I should prepare.
Writing like this is fun. I think I can write in Japanese and English like this, but not in Chinese, I want to improve. If I can do this in Chinese in the future, that would be great. Do it one by one then. Anyways, for now, I will do my work as much as possible and deliver the results as much as I can. So I can enjoy it more.