What does work life balance look like for you where you’re working? I feel like everyone I talk to basically doesn’t have the work life balance that is originally advertised by their company. Everyone ends up taking work home to do.

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What I do is carve out “no-meeting” mornings between 8–10 am to tackle deep work before my three kids burst into the home office. Then, I set a hard stop at 6 pm, then switch off Slack and email notifications: no excuses. If urgent, I’ll batch requests first thing the next morning.

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I could definitely adopt that no-meetings morning block and incorporate that. Not sure if I'll be able to add a hard stop at 6pm although I would love to lol

Mine is actually good here. I have to take work home on occasion, but that's pretty rare. And it's so much better than my last job, so I have no room to complain. I was working basically every night and weekend for the last 6 months until I found this job.

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Oof night AND weekends? That's so rough. Glad you found a much better place where you have time to breathe even though it seems like it's still pretty busy there

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