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I know some of my coworkers have a pretty decent work-life balance. They don't really take work home with them, and they spend a lot of time with their spouses and families. For me, I find it difficult because I work so many hours. Sometimes it feels like I live at the restaurant.
Chief
Me too!! It’s never ending and like as much as I enjoy it some days, other times I’m just ready to go home and sleep…
You’re not imagining it, it really is harder than it used to be. So many places are short-staffed, and everyone’s doing more with less. Work-life balance in restaurants can exist, but it usually takes the right kind of team and manager who actually respects time off. How is your manager with time off and breaks?
Chief
Exactly! Short staffed and overworked!! My GM is pretty good about time off, but honestly it just FEELS like more work than it used to be…
I don't think so. It's hard to have anything resembling work life balance when your shifts don't end until 10 or 11 PM every night. Working almost every weekend doesn't help either.
What kind of trick question is that? Seriously, it's possible to have some work/life balance if you work in a restaurant. But the job does have a way of just pushing a lot of other things aside. But I've got a life outside of work, and even the chefs and managers are somehow able to handle having a normal life apart from work. But, you just have to make sure you don't let the job just pull you in and never let go.