{"id":641,"date":"2013-07-31T09:34:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T16:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=641"},"modified":"2013-07-31T09:34:49","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T16:34:49","slug":"making-your-own-career-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2013\/07\/31\/making-your-own-career-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Making your own career rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Radhika Nagpal,\u00a0a computer science professor at Harvard, has written a wonderful piece called &#8220;<a title=\"Radhika Nagpal\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/guest-blog\/2013\/07\/21\/the-awesomest-7-year-postdoc-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-tenure-track-faculty-life\/\">The Awesomest 7 Year Post-Doc or: How I Stopped Worrying and Love the Tenure Track Faculty Life<\/a>.&#8221; It&#8217;s about maintaining good emotional hygiene in the academic environment. She writes: &#8220;It seems to me that at all levels of academia, almost regardless of field and university, we are suffering from a similar myth: that this profession demands \u2013 even deserves \u2013 unmitigated dedication at the expense of self and family. This myth is more than about tenure-track, it is the very myth of being a &#8216;real&#8217; scholar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px\">Her program:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>I stopped taking advice.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>I created a \u201cfeelgood\u201d email folder.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>I work fixed hours and in fixed amounts.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>I try to be the best \u201cwhole\u201d person I can.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>I found real friends.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>I have fun \u201cnow\u201d.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Although the piece focuses on the particularly obsessive world of academic teaching and research, its insights regarding the cultivation of rational, personal expectations can be applied far and wide.<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t to C<a title=\"Clarissa's Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/clarissasblog.com\">larissa&#8217;s Blog<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radhika Nagpal,\u00a0a computer science professor at Harvard, has written a wonderful piece called &#8220;The Awesomest 7 Year Post-Doc or: How I Stopped Worrying and Love the Tenure Track Faculty Life.&#8221; It&#8217;s about maintaining good emotional hygiene in the academic environment. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2013\/07\/31\/making-your-own-career-rules\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[42,65],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-posts","tag-for-educators","tag-mental-hygiene"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}