Work-life balance is a broad concept including proper prioritizing between career and ambition on one hand, compared with pleasure, leisure, family and spiritual development on the other. As the separation between work and home life has diminished, this concept has become more relevant than ever before.
Making the best use of your time and being effective in what you do are essential prerequisites to a balanced, well-designed and fulfilled life.
What about you? Would you rather be extremely successful professionally and have a fairly ordinary personal life, or have a very happy private life and only an ordinary professional life?
It’s a difficult question because we’re here (at school)trying to get great marks to have a brilliant future, but at the same time we want to be happy.
ReplyDeleteI really want to be a doctor and have a very successful career, but this work won’t allow me to spend much time with the ones I really care for.
I think that family is a part of us and when everything seems falling apart, these are the ones who truly understand you and support you.
For some people, career is everything and nothing else matters, I don’t think this way. Your job is only that, it’s what you do, not what you are, family is the opposite. I don’t want to be a successful doctor and come home with no one to share the joy, but I also don’t want to get up early everyday and do something I really dislike for most part of my life. That’s why in the future I’ll try to balance things, if it doesn’t work, I’ll try harder! After all the main purpose is being happy, right? And I don’t think I’ll achieve that happiness giving up on family or job. They say we can’t have it all but nothing stops me from trying.
Isabel Barradas 11ยบ4 (2009/2010)
I would be happy if I could have both, because they are equally important for me, but…
ReplyDeleteI know that when people are rather successful professionally they don’t have enough time for their family, as they are always busy with some issues about the job. So they end up to be really lonely people because the only relationships they can handle are related to their job. Although there are people who are happy living like this because they feel successful, they have a good self-confidence and such. It depends of each person’s interests.
On the other hand, there are people who only find true happiness in their families. So these kinds of people feel successful with a big wealthy family? They don’t care much about the job, for them it’s just a source of income.
All in all, if I had to choose only one of these two possibilities I would choose the first one because having a family isn’t part of my plans at all, for the next years. For now I just want to study, get into the university and have a long, happy and successful career.