The work-life balance minefield.
It’s hard to speak of experiences making work-life balance decisions without someone feeling as if my “is” is intended to have the force of an “ought”.
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Work-life balance: not seeing integration as intrusion.
Clearly, my to-do list has no reservations about sprawling. So why do I feel guilty when my career encroaches on my home life?
Job offer negotiations and relationships with our future colleagues.
Many pixels have already been devoted to discussing the case of W, the philosophy job candidate who says her job offer was rescinded after she inquired with the department making the offer about what adjustments in start-date, salary, new teaching preps per year, pre-tenure sabbatical, and maternity leave might be possible. Rather than indicating which […]
Is having it all impossible?
One of the things I’m liking a lot about this new community at Scientopia is the fact that it has helped me find some cool new blogs that I might not have found in the vastness of the blogosphere. (It’s not the blogosphere’s fault — it’s just that there’s so much out there, and there […]
The blogger’s hypothetical imperatives.
In the midst of the ongoing conversation about managing career and housework and who knows what else (happening here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and likely some places I’ve missed), ScientistMother wondered about one of the blogospheric voices that wasn’t taking an active role in the discussion. She mused in a comment at […]
Outing pseudonymous bloggers.
I’ve gotten word that another blogger who has been tracking IP addresses associated with comments (on his own blog and on the blogs of others) is preparing to blow the whistle on what he is inclined to view as sock-puppetry. I’m not sure how complete this blogger’s information is, nor whether it is consistent with […]
President Obama on education.
If education is a priority in our economic recovery, what will that involve?
What, exactly, is meant by ‘a life’?
In light of some of the comments on my ongoing series of posts on trying to combine a family and an academic career, I think a few clarifications may be in order:
Pursuing your goals in a world with other people.
Apropos of the discussion here, I offer some general thoughts on pursuing partner, career, family, or other aims one deems important: Knowing what you want can be handy. Among other things, it can help you identify when you’ve found it. If you have no idea what you want, recognizing it when you have it can […]