{"id":12577,"date":"2012-10-12T03:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=12577"},"modified":"2012-10-12T03:00:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T08:00:19","slug":"this-is-not-okay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12577","title":{"rendered":"This is Not Okay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/startswithabang\/2012\/10\/10\/hey-physics-astronomy-professors-this-is-not-okay\/\">Hey, Physics &amp; Astronomy Professors? THIS IS NOT OKAY!<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I recognized long ago that it\u2019s important to have a full life that includes a lot more than just my scientific interests for my physical and mental health and well-being. Which is why I\u2019m absolutely <strong>livid<\/strong> over this letter, circulated in a top astronomy department (which \u2014 I cannot prove \u2014 but I <em>believe<\/em> I once worked at), reproduced in its entirety, with my commentary, below.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I routinely worked &gt;60-hour weeks in grad school, or at least I was at school for at least 60 hours a week \u2014 there was always some late-night decompression (hall golf or some game on the computer). In at 11 and leave for home after midnight was routine for the lab, with breaks for meals, and then additional time the weekends.  (I did a few 80+ hour stints as a postdoc at TRIUMF, because when you have beam time, you run the experiment 24\/7.)  I also got the &#8220;this isn&#8217;t a 40-hour a week job&#8221; lecture once, during a rough patch when I was &#8220;only&#8221; putting in about that amount.  But I also got time to myself to have a little bit of a life \u2014 limited to what you might have on a grad student stipend.  This letter is over the line, unless the purpose is to drive people entirely from the field. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, Physics &amp; Astronomy Professors? THIS IS NOT OKAY! I recognized long ago that it\u2019s important to have a full life that includes a lot more than just my scientific interests for my physical and mental health and well-being. Which &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12577\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}