Work-Life-Balance?
I would argue that work-life-balance hinges on assumptions:
- First: I assume that in this balance, life carries most of the weight, but work seems to hold leverage. Projects won/delayed, colleagues promoted, company restructured - work events accumulate into leverage. With little weight they can cause (shorter-term) imbalances, a little at a time. Larger events in life, like marriage, disease, children, death also cause imbalance, but tend to do so disproportionally, but more firmly (longer term)
- Second: I have learned to assume that we do not exercise control over such events
- Third: I assume movement going back and forth between work and life: there are things we bring to work, and things we take home.
(Things other than salary and expectations)
Maybe we have more of a say in things transfered from one end to the other than we hold control over events at either end. Maybe the difference between balance/imbalance is connected to these movements?