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I kid you not, the first thing I did when I read the question was chuckle at the bit about free time :-)OK, deep breath. (as usual, answering from perspective of CS faculty in the USA)Yes, being a professor at a top university is stressful. I saw it in my faculty advisors at Yale and Berkeley, and I felt it first hand as faculty at UC Santa Barbara (assistant, associate then full professor), and now at Univ. of Chicago (chaired full professor). But then again, so is any other highly competitive job. Certainly, if you make it this far along, then you’ve been trained through experience on how to handle the stress well. So it is stressful, but we all have our own ways of handling it. Some approaches are not very healthy, and can lead to early burnout or disruptions in the non-academia parts of your life.Just saying work is stressful is not very helpful. Instead I will say that in general, faculty at top schools have far more work than there is time to do. There is no efficient schedule that we can come up with to actually get everything done. It’s generally impossible. Instead, our scheduling algorithms are more like prioritization algorithms, with the full knowledge that low priority items are likely to be ignored and forgotten. The more senior we get, the more work tends to come our way, and the more things fall off our plate and on to the floor. The number of “Hi, did you get my email about XYZ, because you never responded” emails I’ve gotten has dramatically increased over the years. A common piece of advice between faculty (that is rarely heeded) is that we all (and especially younger faculty) need to learn to say NO more often.Along those lines, we generally don’t actually have free time. We protect our family time fiercely. Outside of that, we just have time when we’re switching between tasks. And there are times when we should be working, and our brain just refuses to cooperate. To keep a good life balance, faculty tend to have to work hard to constrain the hours when we work, so work does not consume our lives. In addition to spending time with family and friends, faculty colleagues I know well generally have one or two hobbies they are passionate about and try hard to maintain. For some it’s long distance running, for others it’s cycling, travel or creating music, and others dance or art. For me personally, it’s a fairly even split between fantasy football, going to the gym, and travel (and of course Quora).Just to drive home the point about endless workload, here’s a list of work-related tasks that have come up regularly to consume my time this past year:Teaching activities: lecturing, prepping for lecture, writing/updating homeworks/class projects, grading exams/project papers/presentations, meeting with TAs, handling student requests/emails.Mentoring my (mostly PhD) students: 1-on-1 meetings, project meetings, signing forms, buying/reimbursing equipment they need, writing letters of references for jobs/internships/fellowships, giving feedback on paper drafts, conference talks, job talks, posters.Driving research: reading papers in related areas, brainstorming and planning projects, meeting new colleagues in CS and other departments to exchange research ideas, teleconferences w/ collaborators, dealing with IRB and legal requirements related to projects, buying/reimbursing/monitoring equipment/resources, writing presentations, writing funding proposals to NSF/DARPA/industry programs, writing annual reports for funded projects, managing funding and expenditures, attend research conferences.Work for the department: typically 3–4 committees with lots of meetings. For this past year, I was heavily involved in faculty hiring (reading/evaluating faculty apps, discussion/inviting candidates, hosting candidates on-site interviews, leading candidate discussions, recruiting candidates after offers), graduate affairs (evaluating grad students, changing PhD curriculum, dealing with any issues that pop up), graduate admissions (travel to recruit students, reading/evaluating PhD & MS apps, interviewing students, discussion, decisions on admits, recruiting admitted students, hosting visits), undergrad curriculum (changes to undergrad curriculum)Work for the campus: lots of ad hoc things that pop up. Participate in invited panels, give talks to visitors from government agencies/industry visitors/alumni, meetings for various campus-wide or inter-departmental initiatives, interact with the media and press as a limited representative of the department (and occasionally campus).Service for wider research community: serve on program committees for conferences (lots of this, reading and reviewing paper submissions), serve as chair on conferences, travel to serve on evaluation panels for funding agencies (US and other countries), write tenure letters for younger colleagues, write promotion to full letters for younger colleagues, write job letters for students/former colleagues, write letters for PhD applications by undergrads, serve on editorial board for journals, travel to serve on panels for conferences, travel to give keynotes for conferences/workshops.Various types of outreach: visit and give talks at companies, visit/give invited talks/meet faculty at other universities, serve as judge on hackathons, advise K-12 STEM/CS organizations, host undergraduate summer interns, host high school summer interns.I probably missed some details here or there, but I think I got the bulk of it. I probably do a bit more service than some, and there is generally less service type work for more junior faculty. Hopefully this gives you a sense of what faculty at good schools have to work with.

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