The right to desire to aspire to feel inspired is a human right I am surely the first to articulate, but that I have not invented since it is eternal.
These are the main pieces of academic advice I have received:
– Do not think you will get a job
– Obey to get tenure
– Publish what they think so you can publish a lot and have them like it
– Cut corners on teaching
– Avoid any service not required, but here do exactly as told
– Be glad to be here, since you are not really qualified and this is just something nice we have arranged for you
– You do not deserve this and you are taking the place of many who do
– Don’t let it go to your head.
If one objects to the attitude evinced herein, there comes the “be glad you can eat” sentence.
I am sorry but it all strikes me somehow as a set of excuses for work avoidance. It does not sound like efficiency or practicality or prioritization or time or task management, it sounds like the ravings of depressed persons.
This is why I have decided to publish the right to desire to aspire to feel inspired.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 