One of the stated values at IronPort was 'work/life balance,' but I wasn't living it. I was rarely home. And when I was home, well, let's just say I wasn't particularly helpful or cheery.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When work is going well, your home life struggles and vice versa. If my kids are OK - that is the most important thing. I strive for balance in my life, though.
My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives.
Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.
So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.
There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
I had worked my whole life. Until I became a mother, that's the only way I measured my value.
I know that balance that I need to have in my life.
I don't like the word 'balance.' To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family... as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration... of work, family, self, community.
I think it's important to be able to say that you did live a normal life and struggled to make ends meet. It all has to do with work ethic and how I apply myself to my awesome job now. I've always been used to working because I've been working since I was four.
My husband and I have kept a good balance between the work and the rest. I feel so lucky having a job, and I know so may people who focus too much on work, and their home lives suffer.