Do You Ever Sleep??? 😴 I periodically get variants of this question: "When do you sleep?", "Do you ever sleep", and the more constructive, "how the heck do you manage your time?"In today's #HackingAcademia video, I cover some key concepts and my experiences with the whole, "how many hours do you work" topic. Specifically:⌛ the difficulty in accurately estimating how many hours you work, with understimation and overestimation rampant, further confounded by the blurry boundaries for many researchers between "work" and what they are passionate about in their personal lives⌛ the fetishization of overworking and grind culture, and the tendency for this to creep into accurate and objective assessments of how hard people work in research and academic careers⌛ the insidious nature of how work can creep into days off, a call here, an impromptu zoom meeting there, and how that can result in underestimation⌛ coming to grips with the reality that you will be outworked by many: work smart, not hard, is good advice, and many work hard but ineffectively. That said, there are lots of people who are working both smart AND incredibly hard. Having the resolve to accept the differences in opportunity because of deliberate life choices to not work that hard is key.⌛ my work hours - often relatively normal but bursty around deadlines and horrendous when doing work travel⌛ the aftermath: a 40 hour week of one type of work can leave you refreshed and ready for fun and family: a 40 hour week of a different type of emotionally and personally draining work can leave you with plenty of "spare" hours but drained 🥱 ⌛ my situation - no surprises: work and lean heavily on amazing teams and collaborators, heavily leverage and lean on your "superpowers" - those few skills where you're very very fast⌛ skill hacks: capped time and energy budgets for activities, and have the discipline to keep to that budget regardless, and accurate, non-optimistic *or* pessimistic time estimation and subsequent planning and prioritisation🛡️ PROTECT your time and diary from non-time-effective tasks as much as possible: these are tasks where you are required to put in a fixed amount of time rather than achieve an outcome. This gets increasingly difficult to do the more senior you become - a large chunk of your week will unavoidably involve fairly fixed-time commitments.🤔 how many hours you work and how hard you work is entirely up to you - your ambition, your risk appetite, your life commitments, your need / interest for a life outside of work. What is important in my opinion is simply taking the time to be consciously aware of how hard you're working, and checking in occasionally that it matches your intentions (rather than something you've just slipped into doing by default).YouTube: https://youtu.be/wQpMtaycbVI#careers #worklifebalance #work #hours #working #jobs #academia #research #timemanagement

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