Hmmmm, that's awkward though. Because how do you not deal with crises? Are there things you can delegate to minions (if you have no minions, can you get minions?)? Friend of mine has been reading a book (written by an academic in the states, I think) about the concept of deep work and shallow work and how you end up not being able to get the deep work done if the shallow work takes over. I think they do talk about being quite strict, in a kind of "Is the fucking world ending in the next two hours? No? Then it can bloody well wait two hours, because this is my protected time for working on XXXX").
I think I have a weird attitude toward it, because so often my response is that no-one is going to die if it waits (and, you know, have worked in jobs where people might die if it waits, so tend to mean that when I say it...)
I think, especially with Masters, the timescales are crappy - you don't have long to drum up your participants and (for this one anyway) it fell smack bang in the summer holidays, which was rubbish for getting people. You don't have the luxury to do anything other than grasp desperately at the hand of anyone who agrees to take part. Hence crappy convenience samples. What worries me more is that so many students don't seem to consider that that might be a problem...
Maybe, maybe I will sit on the train on my approximate one million imminent journeys to London and write it then. Gotta use those hours somehow...
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on 2017-09-08 11:30 am (UTC)I think I have a weird attitude toward it, because so often my response is that no-one is going to die if it waits (and, you know, have worked in jobs where people might die if it waits, so tend to mean that when I say it...)
I think, especially with Masters, the timescales are crappy - you don't have long to drum up your participants and (for this one anyway) it fell smack bang in the summer holidays, which was rubbish for getting people. You don't have the luxury to do anything other than grasp desperately at the hand of anyone who agrees to take part. Hence crappy convenience samples. What worries me more is that so many students don't seem to consider that that might be a problem...
Maybe, maybe I will sit on the train on my approximate one million imminent journeys to London and write it then. Gotta use those hours somehow...