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Posts Tagged ‘work-life balance’

Wikipedia had one of the simplest definitions and called it “a broad concept including proper prioritizing between career and ambition on one hand, compared with pleasure, leisure, family and spiritual development on the other” Related but broader terms include “lifestyle balance” and “life balance”.

As the separation between work and home life has diminished, this concept has become more relevant than ever before. As a young working adult, I thought the right thing to do was to work so that my employer was pleased and therefore I got my increase when it was due, got the occasional bonus for good work and above all, kept my job.

I think by now, that all my readers know I am a woman, and as women do, we get married, sooner or later have children, but continue to work full time. Our expectations of ourselves do not necessarily adjust and so we continue to work hard at work, while keeping a husband and growing family happy as well as being a home-maker. It’s a vicious cycle and one that I am not going to belabour here, suffice to say that one must spare a thought for husbands – they don’t actually have it as easy as we sometimes think. Read the rest of this entry »