altyfcJoined: 27 Jul 2004
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Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:35 pm Reply with quote
How do you get the work / life balance right?
IMO, it's important to work hard early to make your life more comfortable later but this can mean that you don't have as much leisure time as perhaps you should earlier in life... what's your take on this?
What's the best solution?
Aaron
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Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:39 am Reply with quote
Kind of shut off what most people say and do. I'm not suggesting to be alone and live in your own world, but too many people seem to get caught up. For example, there is nothing wrong with taking a long vacation, though your neighbor may not take such a long vacation. There is nothing with working for only 30 hours a week. Who cares about the national average? No reason why you need to work so hard to buy latest gadgets. Etc. etc. etc. I think it's important to find your value and try to find ways to get your value.
ScollsJoined: 05 Aug 2005
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Wed Jul 26, 2006 7:31 pm Reply with quote
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. I think while young one should stash away every dime, and work as hard as you can. Bugger everybody else who would criticise you for it.
Life begins at forty anyway, doesn't it?
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Wed Jul 26, 2006 11:03 pm Reply with quote
Scolls wrote:
Life begins at forty anyway, doesn't it?
Oh, I don't know ... it's kind of scary that I'm starting trying to think that way.
asiaexpatJoined: 24 Jun 2005
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Tue Aug 29, 2006 7:38 am Reply with quote
people get so hung in their habitual patterns that they end up missing so much of what life has to offer. When people do not find outside interests they often continue to work when they don't have to.
ScollsJoined: 05 Aug 2005
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Tue Oct 24, 2006 9:20 pm Reply with quote
asiaexpat wrote:
people get so hung in their habitual patterns that they end up missing so much of what life has to offer. When people do not find outside interests they often continue to work when they don't have to.
This is a very good point! Habit can be a good thing in some respects, but I think it's overrated - you need change to really appreciate life to the fullest, imo.
aprilcanadianJoined: 06 Oct 2006
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Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:34 pm Reply with quote
altyfc wrote:
How do you get the work / life balance right?
IMO, it's important to work hard early to make your life more comfortable later but this can mean that you don't have as much leisure time as perhaps you should earlier in life... what's your take on this?
What's the best solution?
Aaron
I started suplimenting my income with my artwork, now my artworks taken over and is the majority of my income. im far from rich but we arnt starving. i can be home with my kids and i make more then i could dropping them off at daycare and running a rat race.
i like my work, i enjoy it , its stimulating and you cant beat the schedual.
before i worked 14 hour days and by the time i paid childcare i wasnt pulling home all that much money, hardly saw the kids and it just wasnt worth it.
