Nobelist: work-life balance impossible for scholars in short term

Oh for goodness sake stop being snowflakes and get some work done. Yes I am an academic and in my early career worked two or three jobs in tandem to get on. That's normal that's life it's called graft.

One issue is the insistence of many to create a divide between 'work' and 'life' as if they are mutually exclusive... aim for a balanced life in which work is just one of the things that you do. It's easier when your work is something you are passionate about, of course, and when your partner is interested in the same things. I can go home and wibble about computer science because that's my husband's trade too! (Of course, it's ended up that our daughter has also gone into computer science...)

An academic friend of mine who also plays music says that work is what he does between gigs. In otherwords, the priority should be life, supplemented by an interesting and useful job.