Melissa McEwen has a great new post on why we're all too busy.
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- Everyone should have enough time to get at least 8-9 hours of sleep.
- Everyone should have enough time to cook all their own food, with of course allowance for plenty of reheating scraps, as cooking three meals individually every day is not practical for anyone, even a homemaker.
- Everyone should have 3-5 hours per week to exercise.
- Everyone should have 3-5 hours per week to devote to a hobby.
- And finally, everyone should have one hour at the end of the day for relaxation, prayer, meditation, reading, television, or some other suitable way of winding down.
- Then, as becoming of a hard worker, the rest of our time should be spent working.
In the future, I'd like to own my own lab, have it set up ergonomically, spend 10-20 hours a week in it, and publish less frequent but really good stuff. And of course, speaking and writing will always be my loves. And I'd like a family, which would be my first priority, and maybe a big garden or a part-time farm. Wish me luck!
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You're awesome, Chris! Don't lose sight of this idealism! It's relevant to all professions and should be discussed more often. All of this is possible. Time-management and efficiency is the great topic of this century. It should be possible for academics to do the same amount of work in half the time with higher standards of quality, by harnessing information technology.
"cooking three meals individually every day is not practical" – and eating three meals a day is just suicidal – just ask your mitochondria what they think)))…
People have this time you speak of they just use it differently. Following the above scenario takes more discipline. For example, people that watch football already use up their 3-5 hrs a week of hobby time in one afternoon.
Clearly you are currently childless, kids soak up lots of "extra" time 🙂
Can I come work in your lab??? In 6 years I'll be doing PHD work…
A big garden and a part-time farm sounds wonderful! Good luck on that publication. Choline needs more visibility!
I believe the ancient Greeks might've mentioned something about this, but I don't have time to look it up …
If anyone can do it, you can Chris. I work in IT in a clinical research facility, and the focus is always on fixing things that become broken, rather than preventing them from breaking in the first place! I feel if we put even a 10th of the 'new therapy' funding into preventative medicine, we'd see a real return on that investment.
I share a canteen with many clinicians and it's horrifying what supposed health care givers feed themselves, although working 80 hour weeks what do you expect?
I wanted to change career to become more involved in research but I'm a little disillusioned with the whole 'industry' now. It seems to be based more on achieving status that actually finding out the truth..