Tag: worklifebalance
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Middle Age Is About Making Important Choices
I knocked back some paid work last week. Not that we’re rolling in money and I can pick and choose the hours I want, but this time my choice was based on my health. I knew that working five days a week in three different fields would have undone all of the good I got…
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When Hormones Get In The Way Of Your Work/Life, Family Balance
Ever feel like God was having some kind of sick joke when he coordinated the onset of menopause with the metamorphosis of happy children into entitled, grunting teenagers? We all strive for the perfect work/life, family balance but it’s not easy to get that balance right when there are effectively four adults living in one…
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And Do YOU Have A Life, Like Your Husband?
Controversial, I know, but would there have been as much media interest if Phillip Hughes had been a woman, my daughter asked me in the car this morning? ‘Harsh’, I responded, secretly proud of her inner feminist sensitivities. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/176640394 Being the complete cricket ignoramus that I am, I’m ashamed to admit that I’d never heard…
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Woman Seeking GENUINE Work/Life Balance
Gordon Ramsay (Photo credit: Wikipedia) On a scale of one to ten, my stress levels are at a Gordon Ramsay ‘ten’ at the moment. Work has gone into overdrive recently and once I’ve done my duties as a mother, domestic slave and family therapist, there is no time left for ME. And I resent it.…
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Do Women Really Want To ‘Have It All’?
Housework Hell by Alysa Pakkidis This week I have decided to question the premise of women ‘having it all.’ And I’ve decided that ‘having it all’ isn’t ‘all that’. Because the Perfect Mother medal in my cupboard and the ‘thank you’ email from that bitch of a client, hasn’t brought me the fulfilment I thought…
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