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How to Balance Service Work With Personal Research Goals

I keep getting asked to do unpaid reviewing and editorial work because I'm good at it but it's taking time away from my own research and I don't know how to say no.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You keep saying yes to unpaid work that eats into your own, and can't figure out how to say no.

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