It’s difficult to say what balance is because if you work in academia, the fun is that you do something which is fun. If it’s not fun then don’t do it. I mean, if the work doesn’t become part of your life, then probably academia is not the right thing. Having said this, I mean there’s no — it’s also exaggerated that you don’t have any free time at all. The opposite, you have actually quite a lot of free time, and you have usually an enormous amount of freedom to use your time. Even as a postdoc already, nobody cares usually when you come, how you come as long as you get the work done, though you have an absolute freedom basically to subdivide your time.

It’s also a question, again, what do you call balance? I mean, is reading fun or is reading work? I mean, that’s the question. If you sit at home and read articles, is this work or is it fun? So it’s a little bit difficult to distinguish this. And I must admit, compared to when I started, nowadays with having access to the Internet at home makes a huge difference. Because even you can easily go home, eat something, and then you just sit there and do a little bit more or whatever. You can’t sleep in the night, you get up and read a little bit. So I think this makes a huge difference and it gives you a huge flexibility.