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Today's labs required a lot of talking on my part.
I'd kind of forgotten what that was like, for some reason.
It's time to go home but I'm tired enough it's hard to get up to get ready to leave.
At least two colleagues have posted links to a paywalled academic thinkpiece about how the pandemic has caused a shift for many academics, from conceptualizing of their work as a vocation, to perceiving it as work. We could navelgaze all day, trying to think about something witty to say about the origins and implications of this sense of detachment.
How big is the existential black hole into which I fell as a postdoc? I don't think I'll ever know, but I will say I'm still among the legions who will self-report feeling a prolonged sense of being worn down by life at this stage, whether that means the pandemic or otherwise.
I would not have celebrated leaving academia, either. I don't see any nobility either way.
I'd kind of forgotten what that was like, for some reason.
It's time to go home but I'm tired enough it's hard to get up to get ready to leave.
At least two colleagues have posted links to a paywalled academic thinkpiece about how the pandemic has caused a shift for many academics, from conceptualizing of their work as a vocation, to perceiving it as work. We could navelgaze all day, trying to think about something witty to say about the origins and implications of this sense of detachment.
How big is the existential black hole into which I fell as a postdoc? I don't think I'll ever know, but I will say I'm still among the legions who will self-report feeling a prolonged sense of being worn down by life at this stage, whether that means the pandemic or otherwise.
I would not have celebrated leaving academia, either. I don't see any nobility either way.
sudo systemctl hibernate
