Creating a Satisfying Academic Career with Jo Van Every

The shift to asynchronous online teaching may leave you feeling that while you are never in class, you are also never not in class. That feeling is stressful. In this track I talk about how to set boundaries around your teaching that meet your teaching goals while also give you a sense of control over your time and effort.Related tracks:• Don't Do Your Best!• Juggling 101: elements of a good plan Also related (text only): • How does teaching making you feel? (jovanevery.co.uk/how-does-teaching-make-you-feel)• Do you need to be excellent? (jovanevery.co.uk/do-you-need-to-be-excellent)• Academic 'disaster scripts' in a time of disasters, by Katherine Firth (researchinsiders.blog/2020/04/23/academic-disaster-scripts-in-a-time-of-disasters)For more on strategies for managing email, including emotional resistance to using those strategies, see the audio playlist Email Overwhelm.A text version of this track can be found at JoVanEvery.co.uk/asynchronous-teaching-setting-boundariesFollow me on Twitter: twitter.com/JoVanEveryFind my Facebook Page here: facebook.com/JoVEAcademicCareerCoachJoin the Academic Writing Studio: academicwritingstudio.co.uk

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How do you manage your workload so you get to all the important things and still have a life outside work? How do you manage your projects so that you can feel good about the classes you teach, the articles you publish, and so on? In this track I use 3 metaphors to help you think differently about your work so you can do good work and have a life outside your work. Referred to in this track:• Juggling 101: elements of a good plan (jovanevery.co.uk/elements-good-plan)• Helen Kara "How to Prioritise" (helenkara.com/2020/05/04/how-to-prioritise)Read the post here: jovanevery.co.uk/juggling-jigsaws-stars-reasonable-plansFollow me on Twitter: twitter.com/JoVanEveryFind my Facebook Page here: facebook.com/JoVEAcademicCareerCoachJoin the Academic Writing Studio: academicwritingstudio.co.uk

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The pandemic has made us all hyper-aware of how much of what we’d come to tolerate as “just how things are” is actually deeply unacceptable. The pandemic has not created an impossible to resolve conflict between your work-load and your ability to have a life. It has exacerbated problems that were already there. It’s one piece of a much bigger problem and something most academics are facing during the pandemic.Posts referred to:• Freedom and scheduling (jovanevery.co.uk/freedom-scheduling)Read the post here: jovanevery.co.uk/loss-of-physical-boundary-work-and-homeFollow me on Twitter: twitter.com/JoVanEveryFind my Facebook Page here: facebook.com/JoVEAcademicCareerCoachJoin the Academic Writing Studio: academicwritingstudio.co.uk

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This track encourages you to reconsider thinking of yourself in negative terms. You are not broken; you don't need fixing - you might just need some support. The first step is noticing the way things are. Getting a full rounded picture of the good and the bad can help to reframe your perspective. Once you have regained a wider perspective, you can take compassionate action towards yourself.Read the post here: jovanevery.co.uk/not-broken-dont-need-fixingFor more content like this, sign up to the monthly newsletter: jovanevery.co.uk/newsletterOr join the Academic Writing Studio: academicwritingstudio.co.uk Support me on KoFi here: https://ko-fi.com/jovanevery Find me on Linked In here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jovanevery/ Or follow along on Facebook here: facebook.com/JoVEAcademicCareerCoach I'm on Twitter/X here, but less often: twitter.com/JoVanEvery

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Taking a holiday in the summer is really important, especially if you feel like you don't have time to do so. In this track I make the case for taking at least 2 weeks and give you some tips for dealing with how upset your gremlins will be about that. Read the post here: jovanevery.co.uk/resting-rechargingSee also:• How to take a vacation(jovanevery.co.uk/how-to-take-a-vacation)• Cycles of the academic year and intensity of work (jovanevery.co.uk/resting-recharging)Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/JoVanEveryFind my Facebook Page here: facebook.com/JoVEAcademicCareerCoachJoin the Academic Writing Studio: academicwritingstudio.co.uk

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When you are planning your week (or your day or your month) and you look over what’s already in your calendar, what is your reaction to scheduled meetings? When someone contacts you to organize a meeting, how do you react?This is the 2nd track in a series about meetings as part of your academic work. One problem with talking about your activities in the form “I had 6 meetings yesterday” or “I’m in a lot of meetings” is that it feels meaningless — worthless, pointless, trivial, futile. The time you spend in meetings feels wasted, a distraction from your “real” work. I acknowledge that there are bad meetings but I’m not convinced eliminating meetings is possible or even desirable. I also don’t think they are a “necessary evil”. Meetings are often a good way of accomplishing particular tasks. I want to shift your focus to what makes meetings meaningful and/or useful, starting with how you talk to yourself about meetings.Read the post here: jovanevery.co.uk/how-do-you-think-about-meetings-when-you-are-planning-your-day-week-monthOther posts in this series:Are meetings really a waste of time? (jovanevery.co.uk/are-meetings-really-a-waste-of-time)Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/JoVanEveryFind my Facebook Page here: facebook.com/JoVEAcademicCareerCoachJoin the Academic Writing Studio: academicwritingstudio.co.uk

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If you look at what you've been doing over the day/week/month and just see "lots of meetings" it can feel like you wasted your time. Focusing on the content of the meetings rather than the meeting form might make meetings more meaningful. Referred to in this track:• You get a lot done (text only) (jovanevery.co.uk/get-lot-done)• Time perception and how long things actually take (text & audio) (jovanevery.co.uk/time-perception-and-how-long-things-actually-take)• Your home office setup during the pandemic (text only) (jovanevery.co.uk/home-office-setup)There is also a text version of this track: jovanevery.co.uk/are-meetings-really-a-waste-of-timeFollow me on Twitter: twitter.com/JoVanEveryFind my Facebook Page here: facebook.com/JoVEAcademicCareerCoachJoin the Academic Writing Studio: academicwritingstudio.co.uk

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While you don’t need more pressure to produce, you may be missing giving sustained attention to your writing or research. Some of your original summer plans are no longer possible. In this track I encourage you to prioritise meaningful activity and discuss what that might mean for your writing and research plans for the summer. This track (and the text version) was sent to newsletter subscribers on 17 April 2020.Related Posts:No, you don't need to completely change your research focus https://jovanevery.co.uk/dont-change-your-research-focus/Shifting priorities within your research during the pandemic https://jovanevery.co.uk/shifting-priorities-research-pandemic/Prioritising non-academic audiences during the pandemic https://jovanevery.co.uk/prioritising-non-academic-audiences-during-the-pandemic/The relationship between writing for scholarly audiences and writing for wider audiences https://jovanevery.co.uk/writing-for-scholarly-vs-wider-audiences/Risking doing the work you find meaningful https://jovanevery.co.uk/risking-doing-the-work-you-find-meaningful/Cycles of the academic year & intensity of work (also on Soundcloud) https://jovanevery.co.uk/academic-year-cycles-intensity/See also: Academic ‘disaster scripts’ in a time of disasters by Katherine Firth which addresses what may be your initial instinct to ‘rise to the challenge and over-perform and push through’.Read the post here: https://jovanevery.co.uk/writing-research-summer-pandemic/For more content like this, sign up to the monthly newsletter: jovanevery.co.uk/newsletterFollow me on Twitter: twitter.com/JoVanEveryFind my Facebook Page here: facebook.com/JoVEAcademicCareerCoach Join the Academic Writing Studio: academicwritingstudio.co.uk

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The temptation to wear pyjamas or other super comfortable clothing that you would not wear to the office is strong while you are working from home. If this is working for you and you are able to focus while working and also have time when you can rest, then keep doing what you are doing. However, if you are struggling to focus, struggling to stop working now that you have no physical boundary between home and work, struggling to get other members of your household to recognise that you are working and cannot be interrupted for trivial things, or having difficulty sleeping, I highly recommend that you experiment with getting dressed for work.first published as text on 30 March 2020 https://jovanevery.ca/the-case-for-getting-dressed-for-work/

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Emotional labour is real work. It involves skills which can be learned and taught. It adds value. It requires energy. You can do this. You don’t have to stay strong 24/7.Read the post here: jovanevery.co.uk/emotional-labour-is-real-workYou may also be interested in:• Affective Labor: the need for, and cost of, workplace equanimity by Lee Skallerup Bessette (https://er.educause.edu/blogs/2020/3/affective-labor-the-need-for-and-cost-of-workplace-equanimity)• Grief and academia by Katy Peplin (https://www.thrive-phd.com/blog/2020/3/24/this-feeling-is-grief)Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/JoVanEveryFind my Facebook Page here: facebook.com/JoVEAcademicCareerCoachJoin the Academic Writing Studio: academicwritingstudio.co.ukImage by Gemma Evans via Unsplash

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