Re: Work life queries
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 :-)