how are you guys organising your days? i've not quite found a way that works for me. i end up doing some things and not others. currently focussing on my work, and hoping to publish soon to stand a chance in a job in academia.

am particularly interested in how you juggle your teaching/part-time job, your thesis and your paper for publication.

how long do you give yourself to write a publishable article? 1 month? 2 weeks? 3 months? 6 months? what's the best way to go about organising your time to achieve a publication?

i hear that lecturers write during holidays.. today i attended a class where one lecturer said he works evenings and weekends. he said being in academia is a vocation.

does that mean that i have to give up my telly, which is my only remaining evening activity, to stand a chance in academia?

i dont think i ever plan my day :s

Basically I try to keep my morning when I am tho most productive free from other activities for working on my PhD. becasue PHD is the top-most priority now. I do not write papers currently as I already have one and will write them only after I will have my PhD.

verdy - so how did you organise your work when you were writing your paper?

I wrote my paper in a gap year after MPhil while waiting for a funding for my PhD. I was working then but I had set aside a certain time --Monday&Friday mornings-- for writing this paper. As it was from my MPhil dissertations, it took me only 2 weeks to prepare and then one morning to make corrections suggested by referees. In any case, if you want something to get done, plan it, dont wait for inspiration (it usually never comes;) . And my suggestion is that wrie a paper that is very closely related to you PhD work, then you will get two things at once.