{"id":71136,"date":"2023-12-20T02:57:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T07:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=71136"},"modified":"2023-12-20T02:57:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T07:57:03","slug":"is-your-end-of-year-theme-exhaustion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/is-your-end-of-year-theme-exhaustion\/","title":{"rendered":"Is your end-of-year theme \u2018exhaustion\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71137\" src=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/exhaustion.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/exhaustion.jpg 680w, https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/exhaustion-250x142.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are writing this end-of-year piece as yet another COVID wave besets Victoria, Australia (where the Research Whisperers live). Doesn\u2019t COVID realise that it\u2019s, like, so 3 years ago? Unfortunately, it is very much still with us. Definitely like someone who invited themselves over to your place and just won\u2019t leave.<\/p>\n<p>Discussing what our theme might be for this post, Jonathan almost immediately said, \u2018Exhaustion\u2019.<span id=\"more-11909\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jonathan\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I suggested exhaustion as a theme both because I feel tired and because it keeps coming up in conversations at work. I feel like the academics that I work with are even more harried than usual (whatever \u2018usual\u2019 passes for these days). While the number of applications are getting back to pre-lockdown levels, they seem to have less zing, more cut-and-paste. Maybe I\u2019m just paying more attention.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I turned 60 this year. I have a \u2018seniors\u2019 card now, and I\u2019m not happy about it. All the bad working habits I developed during lockdown have come home to roost. My shoulders, back, and neck are creaky and sore. I ache. I feel like I get cranky much more easily these days. I keep second guessing myself: Am I just a bit tired, or is it because I\u2019m getting old?<\/p>\n<p>On the up-side, I submitted my PhD this year (still waiting for examiner comments, thanks for asking). Tseen, Phil Ward and I published a book together. My amazing colleague,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hvl.no\/en\/employee\/?user=Alice.Demattos.Guimaraes\">Alice Demattos Guimar\u00e3es<\/a>, came to visit from Norway.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/researchwhisperer.org\/2023\/09\/19\/how-to-take-lunch\/\">I took lunch<\/a>. I still get to work with extraordinary people. I still get to make the world a better place. Maybe I\u2019ll feel better in 2024?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tseen\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On some levels, I feel like my professional world is a much narrower place at the moment. There are reasons for this. My caring commitments as a sole parent and part of a tri-generational household with a parent who is becoming increasingly dependent means that so much is not easily possible: international opportunities for conferences, fieldwork, or collaboration; my \u2018usual\u2019 juggle of projects and professional roles; or consistent instances of coffee-chats and catch ups that are the life-blood of knowing what\u2019s going on and who\u2019s doing what. I\u2019m by no means\u00a0 cut off or isolated but these restrictions mean that I\u2019ve become much more aware of what a privileged existence I\u2019ve had with my career thus far. Is exhaustion a theme relevant to me for this year? Like the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boiling_frog\">boiling frog<\/a>, I hadn\u2019t taken notice of the increasingly adverse environment I had created for myself.\u00a0 The tangle of obligations that I was no longer able to fulfil with integrity has led to my shedding a lot of roles in recent months and into next year. It feels like I\u2019m being slack for doing this but I\u2019m trying to give myself more room to maneuver than I think I need. I\u2019m tired of always saying \/ thinking that I\u2019m tired.<\/p>\n<p>Our organic move towards a much more relaxed publishing schedule means that our posts are often driven by topics from you, our Research Whisperer community. We are ever grateful to those who think of us and our blog, and submit or suggest things for our folks. In the frenzy that is most of our everyday lives, something Jonathan and I never overlook is how much the RW community means to us and how appreciative we are of you all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Author Bios:<\/strong> Jonathan O&#8217;Donnell and Tseen Khoo<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are writing this end-of-year piece as yet another COVID wave besets Victoria, Australia (where the Research Whisperers live). Doesn\u2019t COVID realise that it\u2019s, like, so 3 years ago? Unfortunately, it is very much still with us. Definitely like someone who invited themselves over to your place and just won\u2019t leave. Discussing what our theme [&hellip;]\n&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/is-your-end-of-year-theme-exhaustion\/\" class=\"more\">learn more&rarr;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86115],"tags":[434761],"coauthors":[11733],"class_list":["post-71136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-exhaustion"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Is your end-of-year theme \u2018exhaustion\u2019? - World leading higher education information and services<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/is-your-end-of-year-theme-exhaustion\/\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Is your end-of-year theme \u2018exhaustion\u2019? - World leading higher education information and services\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We are writing this end-of-year piece as yet another COVID wave besets Victoria, Australia (where the Research Whisperers live). 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