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rebeccmeisterSeveral years ago in a conversation with someone who has a corporate engineering job, this person turned to me and asked, "So with that kind of work schedule, do you get to sit at home in your jammies while you grade papers?", implying the tiresome questioning about whether academic work constitutes "real" work.
I think about that, and about people wishing "a nice break" while I spend every available hour on a Sunday grading student final papers. This week our college's campus is closed, but I am here because I need to:
-Finish an overdue MS review
-Write a grant report
-Convert my CV to a PDR
-Read and give feedback on a coauthored manuscript
-Help my research students finalize poster presentations for an early-January conference
And that says nothing of my need to gear up for teaching Animal Physiology this spring.
Some break!
Not that any of this is new. Just that the assumptions about academic work can start to grate on a person, after a while.
I'm reminded of a tweet-machine thread from 1-2 weeks ago, too. Someone was so bold as to suggest that people who write for a profession should be turning out ____ number of words every day. Some of the replies were heartening.
This window between the fall and spring semesters is also so narrow that I am not happy about how much of it I am going to wind up spending on airplanes and in airports.
I think about that, and about people wishing "a nice break" while I spend every available hour on a Sunday grading student final papers. This week our college's campus is closed, but I am here because I need to:
-Finish an overdue MS review
-Write a grant report
-Convert my CV to a PDR
-Read and give feedback on a coauthored manuscript
-Help my research students finalize poster presentations for an early-January conference
And that says nothing of my need to gear up for teaching Animal Physiology this spring.
Some break!
Not that any of this is new. Just that the assumptions about academic work can start to grate on a person, after a while.
I'm reminded of a tweet-machine thread from 1-2 weeks ago, too. Someone was so bold as to suggest that people who write for a profession should be turning out ____ number of words every day. Some of the replies were heartening.
This window between the fall and spring semesters is also so narrow that I am not happy about how much of it I am going to wind up spending on airplanes and in airports.
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Date: 2021-12-20 09:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-12-20 09:55 pm (UTC)Also, certain corporate jobs also sure have a lot of down time on the job.