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FlimsyHuckleberry OP t1_j5qsihn wrote

You could still start now if you want! I basically always worked with a timer or stopwatch running so I could easily track my time.

I admire multitaskers. I would love to be able to do that, but I basically have to only work on one thing at once or I get super overwhelmed.

Definitely not expected to work 24/7 here. Annoyingly, being in the office was very important though. I am not French, I'm American, and during my first year, I occasionally worked from home if I was sick or if I had to wait on a repairperson (sick days aren't a thing in France; you have to get a sick note from a doctor in order to be paid). And people would make such snide remarks insinuating that I wasn't actually working.

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gimmethelulz t1_j5qqrvc wrote

> study harder to climb the corporate chain

Except corporations are making it increasingly more difficult to do that as they "flatten the org". Not saying that it's right or wrong to be reducing middle management but less middle management roles means less opportunities to move up. Which is how you end up with people feeling increasingly stuck in their careers and salary progression.

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Lexington49 OP t1_j5qq18n wrote

This was made with coordinates obtained via Apple Maps by searching each university. Data on championships was found on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_football_national_championships_in_NCAA_Division_I_FBS). A rolling average of latitude/longitude was then made for 5-year periods starting from 1980. Data was then loaded into Tableau & visualization was created!

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gimmethelulz t1_j5qoxqq wrote

My favorite was when I used to work for a place that would consistently give everyone below the executive level a 1% raise, then jack up the cost employees had to pay to park at the office. Between that and health insurance increases, you were effectively taking a pay cut every year. And then they wondered why people didn't stick around.

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PotatoLurking t1_j5qj5fq wrote

Wish I did this now it'd be cool to look at. Too late to start now that Im years into the PhD... How did you track the minutes? Did you set certain time blocks to work on x activity? I think I do too much multi tasking to easily do this since I am a wet lab student. While waiting 30 mins for something I might answer emails or do something else. I'm also naturally bad at doing one task at a time so if I get sick of experiment planning or suddenly have an idea for another task I switch to another. I admire your organization and focus. Also very interesting to see a dry lab PhD quantified! The day to day of my dry lab friends are all so different since they don't have to deal with the issues and restraints of biology. Even in the states generally I've seen dry lab students graduate in shorter time frames than wet lab PhDs. However since they have the ability to work anytime without waiting for cells to grow, some of my friends' PIs expect them to work near 24/7. Is this the same for France in your experience?

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