How do you manage a heavy workload as a university professor? This includes attending committee meetings, teaching, supervising master's students, preparing lectures, grading exams, and writing academic papers.
Very difficult, because if you add administrative tasks and control by the administration, which is not at the university level, then things become even more difficult. Organizationally, we get tired a lot.
Professors jobs also include supervising PHD students. They do not supervise only Masters students. Undergraduates are left to those with masters degrees to teach them. Masters students should be taught by Doctors and Professors.
с 2020 года активно и постоянно использую ZOOM для консультаций и семинаров, ну и следую правилу "Если не хватает времени, сокращай список дел!" (например, выбираю только самые интересные научные мероприятия и т.д.)
Dear Doctor
I feel always exhausted. But as I love my work as academic, exhaustion turns to real happiness and eagerness to continue search and produce valuable noted achievements.
One should love his/her career, so he/she can pursue with firm steps and no feelings of tiredness but on contrary be active and enthusiastic.
The workload is huge, but much of it is under your own control - you can opt to mentor another person, write another grant or journal article, how often you attend committee meetings and what you volunteer for. Mostly I find that I am keen to take on new things, take on things what will relieve pressure on colleagues who need it, feel responsible to support students and staff who are struggling, and to respond to external requests for my expertise - such as those from practitioners, ex-students, NGOs and Government officials. I am usually very enthusiastic to take on these tasks, it is part of my role as I was educated by and am now paid by the state, and am in a very lucky to have had the education and experience to genuinely help.
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