There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
My family life is a deep source of satisfaction.
The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come.
Being a part of a large family is just like a little society: those who fight to the top of the heap. We relied on each other and still do. They never discouraged me or told me to get a proper job.
Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.
Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn't-fair results, it turns out that the happy outperform the less happy. Happy people work more hours each week - and they work more in their free time, too.
I know some people say it's not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it's always worked so well for me.
Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.
You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.
To say that a family is happy I think is to diminish it, taking out what is interesting. Growing up, I don't think my family was any happier or unhappier than anyone else's. My mother and father should have been divorced or never even married. On the other hand, I remember many moments of happiness.
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