Your choice - $$$ or Your Peace of Life

Approximately 30 years ago it seemed that nobody left a job with a high salary to work for $40K less. 

This translates to the fact that people did not work from home, they may well have worked a 10 hour day, but after that their time was their own. 

No mobile phones ringing, no expectation of being available outside working hours, it may have been a busy day, but there was a beginning and an end to that day. 

Now, and since Covid, people have become used to working from home, hosting meetings after hours on Zoom and being available 24/7 as part of the terms of employment of highly paid jobs. 

Their jobs have no start time, and no finish time. 

No plans can be made ahead of time for a family night out, or a weekend away, it is all work and no regard to family time. 

It could, and often is thought that high pay means you are owned by the company and the family comes second, although I don’t believe that many companies would own up to this. 

When applying for a position perhaps one of the most important questions to ask is what your policy on hours is worked, and working from home. 

What is the family value? 

Being a counsellor, I see many people who suffer from work burn out, and also people that are so stressed but the dollar keeps them in the job. 

However, this is changing. 

People are happier to earn less and have a work/life balance. 

Perhaps we are beginning to value a walk along a beach, or playing with kids in the garden, even going for a family day at the park, where we can be happy with a picnic, homemade. 

Children can play footy with all the family, or play hide and seek, or skipping, the options are endless. 

Safety must always come first naturally.  When children don’t have family values and are exposed to constantly not seeing Dad or Mum every night, or don’t know the value of a bedtime story, then this leads, in my opinion, to unhappy, unbalanced children, whose value is connected to a mobile phone, and heaven only knows what they are being exposed to. 

Wake up people and well done to those people who have opted for less money and a family life, children will survive without a up to the minute mobile phone and/or laptop, but the loss of a balanced family far outweighs the quickly passing joy of a modern phone. 

Think ahead, if we set the balance in favour of monetary rewards instead of family life, then our children will be exposed to high stress levels, higher levels of suicide, and children that grow into unbalanced adults.

Do you believe that the mighty dollar is more important than family life? 

Think about it and the future before answering this question. 

Many of my clients have trouble trying to find an answer on their own and I help them to evaluate and look forward in their lives. 

Does the $ outweigh everything, or should it be we earn enough to live comfortably and have a healthy work life balance.