http://onely.org/2008/08/13/food-for-thought-singled-out-or-beware-your-work-wont-love-you-back-an-academics-take/ Fresh perspectives on living solo. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:53:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://onely.org/2008/08/13/food-for-thought-singled-out-or-beware-your-work-wont-love-you-back-an-academics-take/comment-page-1/#comment-317 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:36:23 +0000 http://onely.wordpress.com/?p=503#comment-317 [...] For all you writers out there!! Here Bella DePaulo admits that in an early draft of her opus Singled Out, before she heard about Liz Spencer and Ray Pahl’s study of different kinds of personal [...]

]]> http://onely.org/2008/08/13/food-for-thought-singled-out-or-beware-your-work-wont-love-you-back-an-academics-take/comment-page-1/#comment-89 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:19:05 +0000 http://onely.wordpress.com/?p=503#comment-89 L: Interesting that your job is in many ways a haven from singlism. But I wonder–is there any risk of you having an inordinate/excessive amount of work dumped on you because you are seen as “available”? I mean, work that other people don’t want to do? I’ve heard of this happening in the corporate (not academic) world, although it has not happened to me per se (that I noticed!!). Or does your “single/available” status mostly confer the juicy, desirable duties? I hope the latter, and from your post, it sounds as if that has been your experience so far–YAY (though it is unfair to married academics, as you said). –CC

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