• Question: what time do you start your work

    Asked by nicenadia to Alessandro, Angela, Claudia, Marina, Phil on 9 Mar 2013. This question was also asked by alesha, billiejos.
    • Photo: Claudia Krehl

      Claudia Krehl answered on 9 Mar 2013:

      As a PhD student it really depends on what I am doing. We are expected to work 8 hours a day for 5 days a week, but we are fairly flexible on how we use our time. But that also means we have a responsibility to get the work done in our own time. I usually start to work at 8 and work until 7, but I have a break in the afternoon to go for a run. When I am really busy I might have to work from 6 am until 10 pm and sometimes you need thinking space, and then it looks like you work less as you just try to collect your thoughts over a couple of days. So it really depends on what sort of work you do at the moment and as a researcher it is very important to have time management skills as nobody really tells you what you have to do each day.

    • Photo: Marina De Vos

      Marina De Vos answered on 9 Mar 2013:

      That depends on when I am teaching or when I have meetings.
      My preferred working day starts around 10 – 10.30 (I am so not a morning person).
      I prefer to work later in the evening instead.

    • Photo: Alessandro Guazzi

      Alessandro Guazzi answered on 10 Mar 2013:

      Depends on the day – sometimes its best for me to try and think about what I’m trying to do, what my next experiment should be, and on those days I might not go into work at all! Otherwise, if I need to get the experiments done or analyse the results I generally start at 9-10: I hate early mornings!

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