How are you planning to teach with both of you working?
We're planning to both work part-time, possibly with some childcare to fill in gaps. As the kids get older and more self-directed, work from home will also become more feasible.
But what you're really asking is how can I have a viable science career without having 100% of my time to devote to it, and the truth is that I recognize that I can't. That's actually okay with me. I have realized since grad school that I don't have the drive and ambition and laser focus and singlemindedness to be a top researcher - that I will always want to put more of a priority on life balance than that requires.
It might mean that I work on other people's projects, handling the behavioral component, instead of mostly being a PI. It may mean that I propose smaller studies, and only one at a time, instead of planning on a big lab. It helps that my field is more open to less-intensive research than bench science is.
It may mean that I take a clinical job. I'm good at that too, and lots of people would be thrilled to have a clinical psychologist who mostly wanted to work evenings and weekends.
It's poosible that I am only okay with this because I'm burned out at my current institution, and that later I will want more of an intensive research career. I don't think so, though.
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Date: 2009-03-31 03:18 pm (UTC)We're planning to both work part-time, possibly with some childcare to fill in gaps. As the kids get older and more self-directed, work from home will also become more feasible.
But what you're really asking is how can I have a viable science career without having 100% of my time to devote to it, and the truth is that I recognize that I can't. That's actually okay with me. I have realized since grad school that I don't have the drive and ambition and laser focus and singlemindedness to be a top researcher - that I will always want to put more of a priority on life balance than that requires.
It might mean that I work on other people's projects, handling the behavioral component, instead of mostly being a PI. It may mean that I propose smaller studies, and only one at a time, instead of planning on a big lab. It helps that my field is more open to less-intensive research than bench science is.
It may mean that I take a clinical job. I'm good at that too, and lots of people would be thrilled to have a clinical psychologist who mostly wanted to work evenings and weekends.
It's poosible that I am only okay with this because I'm burned out at my current institution, and that later I will want more of an intensive research career. I don't think so, though.