Hello, everyone.
Welcome to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learners' featured post. It is very important for individuals to find a balance between their jobs and their personal lives. At some point in our lives, we must have had an experience where a job interfered with our personal life and gave us little to no time for ourselves. As much as working and providing for yourself and your family is important, our personal lives are also important and should be brought into consideration. Taking up jobs that give us little or no time is really not something to be considered.
Sometimes back I took a job at a sachet water producing company, and from the very day I took the job, the only day of the week I remember is Sunday because every day is just a fixed routine: leave the house at 4 am to return at 11 pm or even 12 am. I lived with my mom and siblings then, but it is hard to believe that I can go days without seeing them or hearing their voice, but we live in the same house. When I come back home, they are already fast asleep, and when I leave the next day, they will still be asleep. My work time at the company eliminated my personal life entirely; all I had was work after work and had no time for myself.
Some days when neighbors see me accidentally, they ask if I just returned since they have not been seeing me around. Some jobs can be demanding, and if you let it, it would tamper with your personal life. This prompt is making me wonder how those who were married amongst us back then were handling it and managing to bond or spend time with their kids because we had little or no time for other activities. Sometimes we are forced to put work first, but in some cases I have seen people who, on their own, choose to put work first and on their own tamper with their personal lives, not because the job demands that.
Balancing a career and personal life is actually one of the most difficult things to do. Some people end up not being able to find balance between both. We all want to live our dream life, which makes a career very important, but being able to find balance between both career and personal life is also important because having a career with zero personal life is something one tends to regret in the end. No matter how small, we all ought to have a personal life, time we spend doing things that we love, and not live all our life doing things because we have to.
Now I work with a boss that understands the importance of personal life, which makes my current job as an interior designer quite flexible. Sometimes I am faced with a fixed routine every day, but I can make adjustments to this routine to help juggle both online and offline work and my personal life all together. The job only becomes rigid if you let it. By procrastinating or underestimating the job, you end up having multiple tasks to attend to, with a very short time frame, thereby causing the job to interfere with your personal life.
