Homework assignments are fun and interesting to do, so long as I don't already have a job or I've golfed my day job down to a few hours a week. But if I have a

Homework assignments are fun and interesting to do, so long as I don't already have a job or I've golfed my day job down to a few hours a week. But if I have a non-trivial day job the intrusion into my personal life quickly becomes unmanageable. I declined to continue three opportunities because the homework was ridiculous in various ways. If your organization assigns me homework, I'm going to look very carefully at it to ascertain whether the filtering function it serves is meat-grinder'y or not. If it feels like a meat grinder, you won't even get an answer from me as to why I didn't complete it. There just won't be any further contact.