Work-life balanced is best maintained by reminding one’s self that ( unless you planned on this career since birth) a job is what you do, it’s not who you are.
So… work while you’re paid to, and don’t when you’re not. Never, ever, ever, give a single second for free. It’s work, it’s business. Be paid every time it enters your stream of thought.
People with no work/life balance always seem to have confused “work” with “life”
It has to serve you, not the other way around.
If it doesn’t serve you, why is it in your life? It is, after all, your life. You have some say in this
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Geeze...retire at 55? That is way too old. Most of us in wireless at Senior Manager level and above are retiring before 50 with the bonuses we get.
Just retired at age 55, as one of those " wire pullers", with enough combined in the 401k and lump sum to never have to work again. I'd say a solid 10. What did Joe Walsh say? Oh yeah.,.."life's been good to me so far".
Retired in 2018, it’s beeeyouuuteeeefulllll
Make sure you record all your time if working 60 hours. If not you are violating the Code of Conduct.
Not allowed to have two people take vacation at the same time in retail so work-life balance is not existent
Even stupid people know you can't put 10 lbs. of po-p in a 5 lb. sack. Doesn't stop Verizon management from pressuring employees to work extra hours well pressuring them to do it without overtime. Company line is get all your regular work done, while taking on all of the Capital construction projects. Then send regular emails reminding everyone that management is monitoring routine ticket closeouts, performance troubleshooting issues, preventative maintenance, open trouble tickets, and you better stay relevant and continue training and developing your skills on your own with no time allotted or vendor on site training classes provided. I am sick of the stupid messaging of train the trainer, getting voluntold that you are the SME because they are desperate to hand off something they can't understand or handle, or the idea that virtual meetings are the preferred way to collaborate and train. The way to cheat the employee is to demand that they use very specific coding on their time cards that only supports capital projects and outages, while loading employees up with tons of routine work and training and threatening constantly that management is monitoring their progress. Definitely an intentionally designed hostile work environment across the entire company. This is beyond a doubt orchestrated from the very top of the company.
I work to live, I don't live to work.
Live more, work less. It's great!!!
Mine is good now. It used to be terrible in the past.
60+ hours a week. If your getting overtime great. But if your not and only get paid for 40. Shame on you. They don't give a rats a-s about you.
We call it work work balance.
I constantly have to work 60+ hour weeks and it's starting to take its toll on me. I'm wondering how many are in a similar situation.