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comment by ButterflyEffect
ButterflyEffect  ·  3917 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski: How Do You Balance Your Time?

    This is the problem with so many "jobs". People have to shuffle around papers on a desk for 30 hours a week to do that which really only takes 10. Silliness.

    Everyone thinks they're busy, some people really are.

One of my roommates and I have had this conversation many times. My last job I could have finished all my work and had 2.5 months left but you can't just sit there so instead Reddit and other stuff comes into play. Now it's Hubski and managing music. Working as a board member for a radio is easily the busiest job I've had.

The point I was going to make, though, is that this extends to everything. Especially academics, there have been many times when we've looked at what our friends who our friends are doing workload wise, the same people who claim to be exceedingly busy, and just laugh to ourselves because they're not really doing that much.