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Asked by derrick to David, James, Mike, Suze, Will on 13 Jun 2011.
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Mike Dodd answered on 12 Jun 2011:
I generally spend 2 hours in the evening working on things I didn’t do during the day. If I have to present work to my group, I might work 3 to 4 hours. But I still find time to have fun in the evening. Either gigs, tv or books.
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William Eborall answered on 12 Jun 2011:
Most evenings I don’t do any studying. I tend to stay at work for as long as I need to during the day to get what I need to do done. However sometimes if I have a presentation to prepare for or a report to write I come home from work early and bring work with me and work until it’s done. This might be an hour or two, or it might be til bed time.
It really depends on how much work you have to do and how/where you prefer to work.
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James Marrow answered on 12 Jun 2011:
I don’t! I’ve done my studying already and I have a family who need my hours! I might do a little work occasionally, but only in emergencies or before big deadlines.
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David Ingram answered on 13 Jun 2011:
My family tell me I spend more time working than I should, I don’t think I spend enough time studying and there is always more to find out. As a student I had fun and studied hard (mostly). At university I did an hours work at home for every hour in class, mostly programming computers – claiming to be working – and avoiding the statistics coursework!
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Suze Kundu answered on 13 Jun 2011:
It depends on whether I have a meeting with my boss the next day (four hours, or more, depending on my levels of panic!), or whether I’ve just had a ‘normal’ working day. Doing a PhD is funny, in that sometimes you can spend a week working hard on something, but still feel like you’ve not achieved much by Friday afternoon. It’s a feeling that you have to get used to though, as things can develop slowly in a PhD. It’s wonderful when the pieces of the puzzle all fall into place though!
The other thing about doing a PhD is this sense of guilt at weekends, when you feel like there’s always more work that you could be doing. Everyone needs a break though, and I love nothing more than a relaxing weekend with friends and family.
At the moment, most of my time is spend working, or feeling guilty about not working, as I’m writing up my thesis at the moment. I’m working over the weekends, however when it’s all over, it will have been worth it, as I can have every weekend back then!
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