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Whenever someone asks me if I have "work-life balance," it makes my skin crawl. My work is an essential component of who I am. There isn't a work me and a personal me. I'm just me, all the time. When I'm at work I often think of non-work stuff, and when I'm not at work I often think of work. I don't have a work/non-work switch and there certainly aren't two of me who can climb onto different sides of an imaginary scale to evaluate my "balance."
Posted by: Dave| Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 10:25 AM Actually, no one really started using this annoying buzzword until Oprah crammed it down everyone's throats. I think you have very much misunderstood what people are asking when they ask that question. Of course work/career is part of who we are, that is a given. What they're asking is what is the ratio? Do you skip lunches to get more work done, or work when you get home or go back to the office on weekends, or work late? That is what they mean by work/life balance. You need to take care of yourself at the same time, time to think, to eat, to chat to your work friends. It goes the other way too, not ditching work to stay out late etc. This is what they mean, and it is a very real and important question. I think that a healthy intertwinement of work/life is better that work life balance. In order for it to be considered balanced it must be 50/50 and that is quite not possible in real life. |
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Finally! I've been thinking this all along, and I thought I was the only one whose skin crawls when others mention "work/life balance." Thank you for your perspective on this.