I read an essay by someone who deprecated life "lived by the calendar" as mechanical and dead. I looked at our calendar. It's more a matter of living by the promises we made.
There have been a few periods in my life when I worked year-round for the same lab, and after a few years of alternating between • "tasks get completed and tasks get added – but there is never a summer and a new-beginning in fall" and • "work in the field that can only be done in summer, then spring and fall semesters doing academic things"
– I discovered that a worklife that includes seasons and endings feels much more natural to me than the life not on such a seasonal calendar. But I suspect that this essay you are responding to was more "escaping efficiency-obsessed time management" or "planning daily time more around people than around task completion" than discussion of seasonality. My life could use better implementation of the daily time management.
There have been a few periods in my life when I worked year-round for the same lab, and after a few years of alternating between
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• "work in the field that can only be done in summer, then spring and fall semesters doing academic things"
– I discovered that a worklife that includes seasons and endings feels much more natural to me than the life not on such a seasonal calendar.
But I suspect that this essay you are responding to was more "escaping efficiency-obsessed time management" or "planning daily time more around people than around task completion" than discussion of seasonality.
My life could use better implementation of the daily time management.