tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post4944775466142159094..comments2024-03-25T11:49:21.281-07:00Comments on The Splintered Mind: My Workday as a Philosophy ProfessorEric Schwitzgebelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-20728752463229696002017-08-22T10:06:29.731-07:002017-08-22T10:06:29.731-07:00I don't remember, other than that it was my cl...I don't remember, other than that it was my class on Evil. Oddly, my experience is that it's not always the same lectures that seem to go well, year to year. Eric Schwitzgebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-32237230044431037572017-08-22T09:09:41.673-07:002017-08-22T09:09:41.673-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13175858031434721654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-32677219340440783272016-03-30T09:31:46.968-07:002016-03-30T09:31:46.968-07:00HOLY SHIT! SIX DIGITS? LOL!HOLY SHIT! SIX DIGITS? LOL!ABCDecaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-78832573354507534082016-03-28T13:22:00.932-07:002016-03-28T13:22:00.932-07:00CA Heaven: That does sound like a pretty sweet dea...CA Heaven: That does sound like a pretty sweet deal!<br /><br />Sara: A useful list, especially to help fight the perception that most of the work is classroom contact work.<br /><br />Helen: Starting in 1997 as a new Assistant Professor, I made a decision to make a sharp distinction between work and home, and to clock into my office for a regular workday. This forced me to make decisions about what to prioritize at work. I was reasonably research productive as an Assistant Professor, but I was not as prolific a writer as I am now -- about 1 or 2 articles per year. I allowed myself to focus more on teaching early on, so I could get my courses into the shape I wanted them to be.<br /><br />I think having the rigorous workday really helps for me. When I'm focused in the office, I can blaze through a lot of work. It helps that there's an end in sight -- I'm much less tempted to take breaks. Other techniques: Since the university counts blogging and other public outreach as "service" instead of research, I emphasize this in declining to take on heavy service jobs from the department and university. I also pay out of pocket for research expenses instead of spending lots of time pursuing grants. (Part of my justification for this as an assistant professor was that $2000 a year on research was financially prudent if it helped me earn larger merit based increases in the future.)<br /><br />All that said, in my two-prep terms, I do feel like things are spinning out of control. I've built my organizational systems and plans around zero or one classes of teaching. If I were teaching a real 2-2 without reductions, or even more than that, I couldn't do as much as I do on the research end, for sure. I probably would still start, though, with that boundary setting between office time and home time.Eric Schwitzgebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-30642337070910501462016-03-28T07:09:13.172-07:002016-03-28T07:09:13.172-07:00Hi Eric - thank you so much for sharing this on th...Hi Eric - thank you so much for sharing this on the Cocoon and your own site. As others have said, it would seem you have a good work-life balance, and I am curious how you achieved this. Currently, I am putting a lot of work in prepping courses and in grading, and I hope the prepping will ease over time and that I will become more efficient at grading. But I keep on finding it difficult to follow my own advice about work-life balance. Did this grow naturally out of habits, or did you have to do an effort to get to the current situation? In how far do you think a balance like this would be feasible for people with higher teaching loads (say, 3/3 or even 4/4)?Helen De Cruzhttp://helendecruz.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-89680140307168649382016-03-28T04:39:15.591-07:002016-03-28T04:39:15.591-07:00Having reflected over the last few months on the f...Having reflected over the last few months on the fact that most students don't really know quite exactly what an academic does, outside of teaching time, I recently created this page: <a rel="nofollow">What is My Lecturer Doing?</a> I'm always happy to have additions to the list!Sara L. Uckelmanhttp://community.dur.ac.uk/s.l.uckelman/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-65587622965951067182016-03-23T13:20:19.639-07:002016-03-23T13:20:19.639-07:00Interesting to read what your work day is.
I get ...Interesting to read what your work day is.<br /><br />I get the best of two worlds, working full time for BigOil (mostly resesrch) and having an adjunct professor position (geophysics) in the university. I teach a PhD course on demand,usually every spring semester, and supervise MSc and PhD students. Sometimes lots of work, but very inspiring >:)<br /><br /><a href="http://cold-as-heaven.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow"> Cold As Heaven </a><br />CA Heavenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09421545664831942737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-32719661766915333232016-03-23T10:29:00.652-07:002016-03-23T10:29:00.652-07:00...add Teacher to labels...thanks...add Teacher to labels...thanksArnoldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02580641063222662041noreply@blogger.com