work life balance

Other countries tend to enjoy a bit more work-life balance than America.

“I wonder how or if I’ll ever get more time back,” I said to my husband. Little did I know that around the corner crept a pandemic that would cause the entire world to shut down. Be careful what you wish for, right?

Every 20-minute increment of my life is scheduled! It’s very rare that I go to bed and feel like I could have done more that day. If anything, I often feel that I overdid it because there was just no time to take a deep breath. There was no time to exhale. Not a lot of balance going on there.

On double dates, the other couples take an interest in a project you are working on. They want to pitch ideas to you. They think it is fascinating. Even though you told your partner it would not be all work talk tonight, you cannot resist the attention. This double date just became a brainstorming session for your work.

When I tell friends I’m going on vacation in a certain destination, they start telling me about the people I should meet up with there who would help my career and the convention I should drop into that pertains to my industry. I’m going on vacation. I want to disconnect from work for a bit.

So many of us work a 9 to 5 job, sometimes because we love it, sometimes because we just need the job. All too often, though, that 9 to 5 job is creating a level of stress that changes us in some way.

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