{"id":276,"date":"2019-10-04T09:19:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T07:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/balticgender\/?p=276"},"modified":"2019-10-04T19:22:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T17:22:08","slug":"sharing-the-caring-marine-ecologist-karoline-teeveer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/balticgender\/2019\/10\/04\/sharing-the-caring-marine-ecologist-karoline-teeveer\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing the caring: marine ecologist Karolin Teeveer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>What\nis the nature of your work?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lab technician \u2013 mainly the job involves\nbenthic and pelagic sample analysis. The job is rather stationary and due to\nthe nature of the analysis also rather restrictive in consideration of the\nworking environment and workplace since speciality equipment is necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A career as a researcher.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have been a student at the University of Tartu since 2002 and working in the same university since 2004. I got my BSc in biology in 2007 and finished master\u2019s in 2009. All my work has been mainly related to different sample analysis and experiments in the lab. During my doctoral studies, I\u00b4ve done more fieldworks and attended various workshops\/training aboard, but I still haven\u2019t finished my PhD studies due to family breaks.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Please\ndescribe your family commitments. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We (my husband and myself) have three children, a dog and three cats \u2013\ncommitments a plenty. Our eldest daughter is studying abroad at the moment and\nis thus quite self-sufficient. Our smaller children are 6 and 3 years old and\nthus require a lot of attention. I\u00b4d rather not say how much attention the cats\nand dog need, but it is a LOT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our support system consists of 2 parents and 4 grandparents out of whom\n2 live in the other side of Estonia and thus are not that reachable. All of us\nhave fulltime jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My husband is working for the same company as I, but his job involves a\nlot more fieldworks and thus his working schedule is rather weather dependent \u2013\nfrom the beginning of April until the end of November he is nowhere to be found\n:P.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How do you balance your work and family commitments? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I really try to keep to the work hours and ideally not bring any work tasks home. But since some days the kids are sick or there are some other obstacles disrupting the workflow, then from time to time, the job comes home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What\nhas helped you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Understanding\ncolleagues and superiors are key. If it weren\u2019t for them, it would be really\nhard to balance my job and my personal life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What has hindered you? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lack of willingness to sacrifice any family time has hindered me to\nbroaden my horizons as a scientist. Long fieldworks or any postings abroad are\nout of the question as long as the kids are still young.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What have been the most difficult moments in your career considering family and work-life balance?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When\nthe due date of an important report coincides with children\u2019s illnesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What are your experience of sharing family-care: (a) in your everyday life and (b) during field works?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I am happy that I can share family-care\ntasks with my husband and my mother if the occasion calls for it.<\/li><li>Fieldworks take more planning and matching\nof calendars since all possible caretakers work themselves as well, but if\nnecessary, everything gets done. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Is\nthere anything else that you would like to share on this topic?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone should test all possibilities to find the best\nmatch for their family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the nature of your work? Lab technician \u2013 mainly the job involves benthic and pelagic sample analysis. The job is rather stationary and due to the nature of the analysis also rather restrictive in consideration of the working environment and workplace since speciality equipment is necessary. A career as a researcher. 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