Having it all?
When do we start moving beyond platitudes and get down to the hard details? Work/life balance is an issue for most people because they think "balance" is a 50/50 proposition. The reality is that most everyone decides for themselves (intentionally or not) what that balance is. How much of yourself do you want to give to work, how much to your personal life. The balance that seems perfectly reasonable to one person is unreasonable to someone else. The expectation that corporations, governments, or any other entity is somehow supposed to provide each of us with a work environment that exactly suits our personal view of "balance" is ridiculous, and really nothing more than an excuse for our not figuring it out for ourselves. I find this to be a pervasive attitude (about many things) in our society today - a highly ego-centric worldview that assumes organizations must accommodate our individual desires and perceived needs.
