Engagement

168 hours in a week – how do I spend mine?

“There literally aren’t enough hours in a day” can be a popular refrain from researchers at all stages of their career. The many demands of research, writing, grant proposals, helping other colleagues, teaching, collaboration, administration, going to conferences, presenting work, supervision and meetings not to mention email and social media can all make our days packed and that’s before we attempt to do things beyond work. We can often feel we are working 60-80 plus hours a week just to stand still. Can you to track your time for a week to help you see where your time actually goes and how many hours you are spending on different activities? It will confirm the amount of time you are working and will also illustrate how much additional time you spend doing things for yourself, sleeping and spending time with those around you who matter to you.