Here is mine:
To take my foot OFF the work pedal.
I am tired of the academic rat race, and the fact that we have no time or space to savour the small or big victories.
Student pass viva? next one! move on!
Paper published? try for a bigger IF next time!
Oral presentation at a conf? you should be giving keynotes at your stage
Got a new grant? it's under £500k - you need to up your grant capture.
I am in serious doubt about where this is all going, and the actual human cost to it (my health, and my kids actually seeing me in a pleasant mood). I have not worked this holiday, and guilt is already coming back.
So I am wishing for the strength to take "work" with a pinch of salt. I am not going to get a nobel prize. I am not going to revolutionise my field. However, I am going to kill myself if I continue to work to reach the fucking idiotic KPIs at my uni. So screw the RCUK january round, I won't put in for it. I am at SL level, I am 37, and the route ahead either as 1) a career change, or 2) a hard climb to professorship. If it's the second, I will resist the push for making the transition in the next three years and will take the leisurely road instead. I'll just need to grow a thick skin for when management comes knocking at my door....
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Marasme · 01/01/2018 18:31
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