No Studying After 5pm: Using Parkinson’s Law to Kick Procrastination’s Ass

Re:No Studying After 5pm: Using Parkinson’s Law to Kick Proc... by mindstab on Thursday November 08, 2012 @01:45AM (#4756732)

That must be nice if all you are doing is being a student. I on the other hand don't even get off work till 6. Home by 7, then dinner. If I'm lucky I sit down to study at 8. Lets face it, you really don't realize how good you have it as a student, but your advice isn't terribly useful to the rest of us now in the work force also trying to continue to learn/enhabce/keep up.

tldr: student life has a lot of freedom and perks over working a job, nanananana.

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Re:No Studying After 5pm: Using Parkinson’s Law to Kick Proc... by codewright on Thursday November 08, 2012 @02:19AM (#4756793)

It's 11:14 pm my time, and I just got done with work. Legitimate, not-procrastinating, i-work-in-the-startup-salt-mines, since I began this morning...work.

I'm now faced with either getting a little more sleep, getting to read a book series I started recently, trying to get some of my russian studies done, or maybe actually learning something about programming today.

I think I developed more as a person when I was working a 9-5. I never even got to experience the freedom of academics, because I couldn't afford to go to college.

Fuck it, I'll read another article about monad transformers and then pass out.

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Re:No Studying After 5pm: Using Parkinson’s Law to Kick Proc... by jamesaguilar on Thursday November 08, 2012 @04:17AM (#4757036)

I don't see what about this would fail to be useful to someone who had more work to do . . . That is, the focus should be on the technique to use the available time, not the specific time this person chooses to stop.

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Re:No Studying After 5pm: Using Parkinson’s Law to Kick Proc... by ilovecomputers on Thursday November 08, 2012 @03:39AM (#4756963)

I'm a student, with afternoon and evening classes. I don't have these freedom and perks. If anything, I look forward to getting a job so I can stop worrying about studying for a test.

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Re:No Studying After 5pm: Using Parkinson’s Law to Kick Proc... by seangransee on Thursday November 08, 2012 @01:51AM (#4756747)

I'm currently working for two startups and a research lab. My day is just the reverse of yours. Most of my evening/nights are spent doing work for my jobs.

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Re:No Studying After 5pm: Using Parkinson’s Law to Kick Proc... by tylerneylon on Thursday November 08, 2012 @08:23AM (#4757672)

Student life is not always easier than work life. The level of 'freedom and perks' you feel depends more on the culture of your cohort/workplace and your commitment than on being a student vs having a job.

I went from grad school to Google in nyc, where the working culture supported going home by around 6pm. That felt like the opposite of grad school, where I regularly slept in my office.

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Re:No Studying After 5pm: Using Parkinson’s Law to Kick Proc... by boatski on Thursday November 08, 2012 @09:01AM (#4757780)

It's crazy, I know, but some students also work.

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