In November’s issue of The Atlantic, Karl Taro Greenfeld asked if the readers could imagine “a profession in which employees spend all day at the office, work four or so hours afterward on homework, and still have work to do over the weekend.”
It is sad, indeed, to see a journalist who is so out of touch with the realities of contemporary workplace. Everybody I know works this way, and I don’t mean only people in academia.
N works at a company that creates medical software. He is required to improve his professional skills by way of obtaining programming certifications in new computer languages. He is also expected to publish his research. All of this has to be done on his own time. So he comes home from work, has dinner, and then works some more because that’s what he needs to do to keep his job.
My sister has her own small business, and this means that she has to work well into the night every day. Even on vacations, she has to be plugged in and working.
I don’t know if there are any white-collar jobs left where people put in their 8 hours a day and do ok more work.
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