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Originally Posted by roachboy
at a remove, the op question has an obvious answer--people are this way because they are taught to be this way.
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Once again, roachboy has summarized the essence of what I've been blathering about for two pages. It's part of your culture, folks. Culture = an set of beliefs and behaviors that are passed down from person to person in a non-genetic manner. Work ethic is one of these things. People aren't born wanting to earn their identity through their work.
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Originally Posted by roachboy
for a long time, i identified very closely with a particular view of being-academic that i found debilitating and which resembled what abaya wrote above---but i figured out that for me other relations are possible and set about building them. so at this point, i see academic work as a day gig--neither better nor worse nor even particularly different from any other.
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rb, you and I discussed this before... but if I ever did end up in a job related to my PhD (academia, research, what have you), I'd hope that's all it was... a day job. I'm all about the "other relations" aspect, external to the day job. I think academia (just like plenty of other corporations) would like to have its members believe that there ARE no other relations, that the day job = life, and that's unfortunate.