The Friday Five for Yesterday: Working
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thefridayfive1) Do you enjoy your work?
2) Are you overpaid or underpaid for the work you do (or last did)?
3) What one thing do you dislike most about your work?
4) What one thing would make your work life happier or more satisfying?
5) Do you try to fit into your workplace’s culture? What does that entail?
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2) Are you overpaid or underpaid for the work you do (or last did)?
3) What one thing do you dislike most about your work?
4) What one thing would make your work life happier or more satisfying?
5) Do you try to fit into your workplace’s culture? What does that entail?
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Date: 2018-06-30 05:15 am (UTC)1) Do you enjoy your work?
I do.
2) Are you overpaid or underpaid for the work you do (or last did)?
Hm. In a narrow, literal sense--just looking at other professors in my field, at a similar stage in their career--I probably fall about in the middle of the pay scale. In a broader sense, I'm lucky to do what I do full time, with a salary and benefits, especially when so many people are grossly underpaid as adjuncts.
3) What one thing do you dislike most about your work?
Meetings with colleagues. For people who work hard to get a lot done with our students during limited class time, we're surprisingly bad at running productive meetings with our peers.
4) What one thing would make your work life happier or more satisfying?
I know this answer to this one, because I recently got it--an office with a window! We share offices at my institution, which is fine, but as relatively recent arrivals, my office mate and I have been working in a closet-sized space in the interior of the building. Next year, we move up to a lovely north-facing window and a bit more real estate.
5) Do you try to fit into your workplace’s culture? What does that entail?
One of the things I love about my current workplace is its informality. There are all sorts of do and don'ts in the teaching arena, but apart from that, everything is very casual. Unlike other places I've worked, where there was often an unspoken dress code, or expectations of face time in the office, or pressure to socialize, or office politics of other sorts, the motto at the current institution is "You be you." It's lovely.