Apply Richard Hamming's golden advice from "You & Your Research" to your career.
1) What are the most important problems in your field?
2) Are you working on ONE of them?
3) Why Not?
1) What are the most important problems in your field?
2) Are you working on ONE of them?
3) Why Not?
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
Suggestion: use readability