My best advice is to make a list of everything needed to be done each
day or week, allot a number of hours to each activity, and stick to the
schedule. Also, when writing a paper for publication or presentation or
a proposal for funding, carry a folder with whatever you have
accomplished with you at all times-even to the pool or fitness center or
movies (who has time to go to the movies!!!?) and leave it next to you
bed at night. The folder will remind you to think about what you want to
write and having it with you all the time will allow you to jot down any
ideas immediately. This works really well for me. You also could carry a
small tape recorder with you, so that when you have an idea you can
dictate it to yourself and later transcribe.



Most of all, keep at it!!!!



Jacqui







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University of Massachusetts Boston

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From: Martha_E_Rogers@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:Martha_E_Rogers@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dr. Dorothy Woods
Smith
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 2:01 PM
To: Martha_E_Rogers@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: {Disarmed} [Martha_E_Rogers] stupid...well, maybe
rhetorical question



I wish I could share a success story with you, and advice on how to
beat (or at least survive) the system--but alas! Although I was on the
tenure track, my experiences were similar to yours. I carried a full+
load while untenured, and resonate with your situation. After I
received tenure I was told that I couldn't have release time from
committees, advising, new course development, etc, to develop,
continue, --and/or write up completed research-- because I didn't need
to publish any more, because I already had tenure. I decided our value
systems were no longer a match, and took an early retirement. (My last
university research project is currently in press.) Good luck! Dottie

On Jan 28, 2007, at 2:16 PM, Marcia E Ring wrote:

> I'm feeling frustrated. Teaching (and related activities) takes up so
> much of my time that I wonder how on earth will I get all the writing
> done I want to do? I'm clinical track, not tenure track, and our
> department has started new programs meaning we all have to pick up the
> slack, which I am happy to do. However, the amount of details that
> need tending to gets overwhelming, and I just don't see how to pull it
> all off. Do I really have to work every waking moment? I don't know
> that I am willing to do that. Let me add that I also work 2 half
> days/wk at my clinical practice.
>
> Any advice you faculty members out there?
>
> Thanks for listening.
> Marcia
> --
> Marcia E. Ring, PhD, APRN-BC
> Clinical Specialist Psychiatry/Mental Health
> Clinical Assistant Professor
> College of Nursing and Health Sciences
> Department of Nursing
> University of Vermont
> 221 Rowell
> 106 Carrigan Drive
> Burlington, Vermont 05405-0068
> Tel: (802) 656-9013
> Fax: (802) 656-8306
>
>
>





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