On December 23rd I started my Winter vacation. Yesterday, to my massive relief, I had a meeting. Between the two of those days I did no work at all.* It was, not to put too fine a point on things, awful. I am not, generally, a practitioner of the sort of performative overworking to which academics are prone. I work more-or-less bankers hours—starting at 9am, taking a generous 1.5 hour lunch, and wrapping things up around 5pm. I don’t work weekends, or evenings. If it can’t be done in those hours, it doesn’t get done. No doubt some readers will say this is why I am not a Full Professor. Like any other white collar professional I sometimes put in a evening or weekend day of work, but by sometimes here I mean once or twice a year at most.
On not working
On not working
On not working
On December 23rd I started my Winter vacation. Yesterday, to my massive relief, I had a meeting. Between the two of those days I did no work at all.* It was, not to put too fine a point on things, awful. I am not, generally, a practitioner of the sort of performative overworking to which academics are prone. I work more-or-less bankers hours—starting at 9am, taking a generous 1.5 hour lunch, and wrapping things up around 5pm. I don’t work weekends, or evenings. If it can’t be done in those hours, it doesn’t get done. No doubt some readers will say this is why I am not a Full Professor. Like any other white collar professional I sometimes put in a evening or weekend day of work, but by sometimes here I mean once or twice a year at most.