Sounds good! I wish you luck in finding a good area. And I suggest another criterion: ‘3) I enjoy working in area X.’ – It’s not strictly necessary. Some things you only start enjoying after you’ve been doing them for a while. But it certainly helps with the dawdling if you’re more eager to work on X than to dawdle.
By the way, I’ve added another clarification to the paragraph above: ‘Perhaps trying to produce results by doing projects is fine. But then I should have done projects in one area and not jumped around the way I did. This way I would have built experience upon experience, rather than starting from scratch everytime.’
Sounds good! I wish you luck in finding a good area. And I suggest another criterion: ‘3) I enjoy working in area X.’ – It’s not strictly necessary. Some things you only start enjoying after you’ve been doing them for a while. But it certainly helps with the dawdling if you’re more eager to work on X than to dawdle.
By the way, I’ve added another clarification to the paragraph above: ‘Perhaps trying to produce results by doing projects is fine. But then I should have done projects in one area and not jumped around the way I did. This way I would have built experience upon experience, rather than starting from scratch everytime.’