Living to Work BahaNick Life in the Lab Survey Says Scientist Lab Technician need coffee to get through the workday Workin 9 till 5 Scientists tend to Work late into the night ID: 329319
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Working to Live or
Living to Work?
@BahaNick
Life in the Lab:Slide2
Survey Says…
Scientist/
Lab Technician
“
need coffee to get through the workday” Slide3
Workin
’ 9 till 5…
Scientists tend to:
Work late into the night
Work at weekends
…and a bit more
Wang, X. et al. (2012) Slide4
Workin
’ 9 till 5…Slide5
Overwhelmed
“A lifestyle involved in science was incompatible with the life I wanted to
lead”“I’ve
committed nearly a decade to science with nothing to show for it but publications.”
“Meanwhile
, our family has not progressed.” Slide6
Sabbath
A pattern of work & rest
Sign of relationship between us & God
Is
primarily about reconnection with God Exodus
31:13Slide7
Sabbath
Not just an observance
Up to us to chose how we do it
Requires discipline
Romans 14:5-6Slide8
Sabbath
Robert Boyle famously carried out scientific experiments on
Sunday:
“the study of the Booke of Nature, is one of the Ends of the Institution of the
Sabbath”Slide9
Sabbath
“The Sabbath was made to meet the needs of
people…
…and not people to meet the requirements of the Sabbath…
…So the Son of Man is Lord, even over the Sabbath!”
Mark 2:27-28Slide10
Jesus is Lord
Early creed
adopted by the Christian church
Political: replaced Caesar as lord
Led to conflict with the society
Romans 10:9Slide11
Science Culture
The obituaries –
lost but not forgotten
“the problem is Nick that you’re competing against people with no life” Slide12
Science Culture
“By
continuously putting my family above everything else, I’ve been made to feel like a complete failure”
Hostile reactions to other prioritiesSlide13
Science Culture
“Men
or women who [marry] scientists
should be clearly aware beforehand… that their spouses are in the grip of
a powerful obsession that is likely to take the
first
place in
their lives
outside the home, and probably inside
too”
Sir Peter Medawar (1979)
Advice to a Young ScientistSlide14
Science Culture
“Many are under the shadow of wives for whom they
are unsuited-and at times society and even humanity as
a whole suffers because of the scholar's wife.
So many careers have been thwarted because of feminine vanity or capriciousness!
As
is well known, women show
an inclination toward a family…What
a lofty
egotism!
”
Santiago Ramón y
Cajal
(1912)
Advice to a Young InvestigatorSlide15
Ledford (2011)
Nature,
477:20-22
Science Culture
“[He] draws out each patient’s personal
story. “
it is a reminder of
the urgency of their work”
“Everyone’s
told not to stress themselves or overdo things, and I could not disagree more,
” – they are missing outSlide16
Overbaugh
(2011) Nature,
477:27-28Science Culture
“many
of my best ideas [come] while walking the dogs in the morning, riding my bike home from work
or weekending
in the mountains
.”Slide17
Conclusions
How does faith make me different?
Perspective & balance is healthy
Science is precariousSupport is essentialSlide18
Questions?
Are there any boundaries between your work and home life
?
Are they
necessary?
How do you deal with these issues?
We are privileged to work in science?
Christians better scientists or just lazier?