Latest you normally get home after work? do you bring work to home?
do you think about work when you are not in your office?
does your planning get better about work, when you think about work in a clam and quiet non work space?
share if you like?
Dushwari
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i get home between 6:30 and 7:30 usually
I do bring work home, i have a few hrs work this weekend
i dont have set boundaries, i will take care of personal stuff during work hours and work stuff during personal time i.e. after kids have slept. i try not to sacrifice family time though.
i like my office and i get tons done, but for creative work i prefer my home office. so many campaigns and ideas get initiated in my home office.
for routine email crap, no better place to do it than my den. loved doing it on the train when i used to go downtown.
most of my day at work is friggin conf calls with clients, with internal groups, product mgmt teams, vendors, agencies etc..so I am on phone or webex most of the time
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thanks, Fraudia bhai.
when do you plan to retire safely, going at this rate? :)
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Great Topic.
I usually stay at work until 5:30. Of course during busy periods I have been a the office until 10-11 PM.
For me, work/life is pretty meshed together. I do take care of my errands/needs at work and log into check email fairly religiously. On the weekends, I try not to go into the office preferring to work remotely. Sometimes I have gone into the office simply because it was on the way to the gym.
I work fairly independently. My boss might mention a few priority items here and there, other than that I am setting my own time/benchmarks. Ironically my assistant calls frequently, mostly to get directives and thoughts on pursuing matters. While it might get a little bothersome, I do appreciate the effort and her diligence.
I am planning on leaving the job in a few months, so I hope that the nest position will give me the same type of freedom...and a decent office.
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The saying in academia goes:
the job of a professor is really attractive – you have a lot of flexibility… as long as you tot up 100 hours a week.
This pretty much sums it up for me as well. Besides the requisite teaching appointments, I split my time at my University office and my home office. Unless I’m doing field research, I tend to do my writing from home as it helps me concentrate more without being distracted with administrative matters. Of course, it’s difficult to get a contiguous stretch of time… committee meetings and administrative work does eat up a lot of time.
So whether it's teaching, research or consulting related work, segregating it on the basis of home or office doesn't quite happen... sometimes it's tricky to convey to family and friends that even though I’m at home, I’m actually working. Having deadlines posted in my den for various consulting projects, grant write-ups, and publishing assignments is often a good egress.
Out of the teaching-research-service triad, I wish I didn’t have the service component :-)
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well said, Umer. absolutely true.
the trick idea works well when you have an office space or you are able to handle distraction. unless you put DO NOT DISTURB PLEASE sign out of the study room where you seat yourself to be actually working. :>
checking emails from students, answering their panic questions about mid terms and finals, explaining to them the grading grid is all outside the teaching hours.
stretch of time: sometimes students get an email in the morning at 1 - 5 am and they realize what burning mid night's oil is like.
research work draws in so much out of the person.
yet, distributing the work as a team in a class room, works when students are made clear that they have to do their part of the deal- learn well and take good notes & do show up for the class, to avoid repetition of the lectured materials.
no makes up, no rescheduling of the exams. that keeps them streamlined.
academia is a whirlpool of constant search and yes, the service component in securing oneself in that sphere is a rough and tough demanding path.
Dushwari
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i get home between 6:30 and 7:30 usually I do bring work home, i have a few hrs work this weekend i dont have set boundaries, i will take care of personal stuff during work hours and work stuff during personal time i.e. after kids have slept. i try not to sacrifice family time though.
i like my office and i get tons done, but for creative work i prefer my home office. so many campaigns and ideas get initiated in my home office.
for routine email crap, no better place to do it than my den. loved doing it on the train when i used to go downtown.
most of my day at work is friggin conf calls with clients, with internal groups, product mgmt teams, vendors, agencies etc..so I am on phone or webex most of the time
Are you a marketing strategist?
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no man, I am a pir
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In at work at around 10, leave by 6...which means I'm home by 7. Team is gone by 6:30, so there's no point in me staying longer than that, although we all can and do work from home if needed. In fact, I think the best creative work gets done at home, Work is mostly meetings and co-ordination...I have the flexibility to work from home, so I try to work form home twice a week.
I try hard not to work outside of office hours, but that's not always possible. As for thinking about work, depends if there's an ongoing issue or problem...
All in all, it's the ability to sit down for an extended period of time without interruptions that I need from time to time, but rarely get unless I'm at home.
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Academia is a full-time profession. I leave at 7:30 or 8:00 depending upon the class and come back home by 6:30-7:00. As a full-time faculty, I am required to spend altogether eight hours on campus. Sometimes, I leave at 2:00 and get back by 10:00 in the evening, again depends on my schedule for that day.
I bring work home especially when it comes to marking papers, checking assignments or doing some research for the lectures.
I had another job as an editor on the sidelines but had to give up due to the hectic schedule and heavy traffic on the roads. Somehow, I liked that job because I never brought anything home.
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no man, I am a pir
:D
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Unfortunately, I don't fit the category. My home is my office. Since I work from home, I do have lot of flexibility but the price is quite high. There is no boundry line between work and life. Since most of my colleagues know that I work from home, they tend to setup meetings even at 7:00 PM at night (4:00 PM their time). I do work with other people in China, Russia, etc. and so there are meetings at very odd hours.
I do my best work when I am flying :) For some reason my brain kicks into high gear when I'm 10,000 feet up in the air. I do well at home also, provided my son and wife can leave me alone, which they do most of the time. Office space has always been difficult for me. Everytime, I visit my office in Seattle, I get bombarded by visitors/colleagues/etc. and its hard to get any work done; but its an extremenly important part of work as it results in networking :)
Regards,
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Latest you normally get home after work? do you bring work to home?
i have one day off which is saturday.
do you think about work when you are not in your office?
cant tell.
does your planning get better about work, when you think about work in a clam and quiet non work space? share if you like?
nope. distraction helps me to come up with the best of the best.