Thursday, 1 August 2013

Lesson 1. Nag

Lesson 1, So You Want to Get a PhD?



You must become the Queen/King/Dictator of nagging people to get things done.  Because, if not, bad things happen...


  • The person doing your very-important-must-be-on-time edits goes on vacation before getting them back to you.
  • The person handling your very-important-time-sensitive files has a co-worker take sick leave and becomes subsequently swamped with all of the work.
  • You propose to have a lovely telephone call to work out specifics on your project, and don't actually have that call until 1 month later.
  • Your supervisor takes on four other projects and disappears for an unspecified amount of time.
It'll be the difference between...




** These did not necessarily all happen to me.   




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