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.
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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.
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