knock knock Hey, a cup of tea for me. Enough alcohol for a while...

I hope everyone is having a good time with their families and is well fed :) I am spending my holidays with my polish family in Wroclaw. The past 6 days were a marathon of eating and drinking (polish, heavy, drinking) and now I am happy to have 3 days of quite before the last push. Staying here for another week before I head back to Germany. I needed the change of scenery. I lately had the feeling of running on autopilot without much time to reflect, I guess that's a side effect of this pre-christmas time when everyone is just spinning.

Currently thinking about what direction I should take after my PhD. My project will need maybe 2 more years to bring to a point that I can wrap up and write into a thesis/paper but I would like to plan my next step a little better. I am thinking about moving from doing science to influencing how science is done. I am sick about how this whole system is broken and wondering what would be the best way to change it to the better. Infiltrate from the inside or create new... What do you guys think?

As every year, I tend to have thought about many projects that I want/could do in the coming year and then I am reminded of how I only managed to finish a fraction of what I wanted to to. I am sure some know this feeling, how do you deal with it?