Work-Life Balance

For many of us, work is a means to an end. We have to pay rent. We have to eat. So we work. We show up every day and we clock in.

But as we clock in we check out. We view work as a separate part of our lives, something that’s somehow disconnected from the whole. But the time and energy we trade are very much real.

Long after we’ve clocked out, we deal with the emotional aftershocks of the day. Stress. Anxiety. The pressure to be a different person at work than we are at home. These are feelings that no amount of vacations, meditation, massages or spa days can cure.

The culture has convinced us that we want work-life balance. That it’s ok to spend all day shoving a square peg through a round hole because the PTO we’re accruing makes up for it. Fuck that.

We can do better. Not just as employees and bosses, but as a culture. It starts with us. Let's get to work.