June 2019
Strategies to achieve work and home life balance
By RJ Oster, governor at large, Generation Next
ProTech Industries

Managing a balanced home/work life is like a weighing scale: when the scale tips, it can create stress and strife in the family, which leads to an unhealthy relationship or a toxic work environment.

What's a healthy balance? It looks different for everyone,  but I’d like to share a few things my wife and I have done to create balance. (I stress that not every situation is the same as mine - for example, marital and parental status will vary.)

In my early 20s, I was still single and childless; life was simple. I was busy making decent money and establishing my career.

When Sara and I got married (celebrating 10 years in July), I had a demanding job that took a lot from my family life - and I didn’t know how to balance the two. As a newlywed, my relationship deserved my attention and I would think, “Well,  someone  has to be the one to make the money.”

When our first child came, I realized my busy schedule created stress for my wife. So we sat down and started to set healthy work and family boundaries. Here is what it looked like. Full story
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