work life balance tips?

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Learn to say no

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Move to industry

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Work from home whenever possible

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Find ways to separate work from not-work. Can be simple things like watch on for work / watch off for not-work. Find ways to give back during not-work time -- resets your brain to think about others. And it makes you feel great.

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Wait for your other over eager teammates to respond to client emails so you can ignore more things.

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Set boundaries !

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Don't assume you'll have better w/l balance in industry - depends on role. A lot of clients are significantly understaffed.

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...and many have terrible cultures, with leaders who sacrifice employees' well-being to close revenue targets, enabled by employees who put up with it -- other than that it's all good!

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Yah, forget about it...

Work hard, play hard.

D2, I find working from home especially with heavy workload to be somewhat stressful

EY2, you have a point to starting ignoring less important things...
D4, good points, I volunteer every Saturday 😊 need tips on keeping sane during the weekdays

Work harder?

^sounds like we're talking about consulting again

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