Comments on: Work/Life http://www.creativeclass.com/creative_class/2009/05/28/worklife/ The source on how we live, work and play Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:14:28 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Paul http://www.creativeclass.com/creative_class/2009/05/28/worklife/comment-page-1/#comment-12846 Paul Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:13:05 +0000 http://www.creativeclass.com/creative_class/?p=11616#comment-12846 I disagree with the last part. Someone with perspective is only going to alienate people who are working like hell to climb the ladder and want to believe in doing so. There's a who-do-they-think-they-are mentality that will keep the more balanced person from advancing. I disagree with the last part. Someone with perspective is only going to alienate people who are working like hell to climb the ladder and want to believe in doing so. There’s a who-do-they-think-they-are mentality that will keep the more balanced person from advancing.

]]> By: Wendy http://www.creativeclass.com/creative_class/2009/05/28/worklife/comment-page-1/#comment-12761 Wendy Thu, 28 May 2009 18:15:39 +0000 http://www.creativeclass.com/creative_class/?p=11616#comment-12761 Does this study account for a change in perspective that taking the time off might have created or been a part of? For example, if you take off time to be with small children, you might decide that working 60 hours a week is ridiculous while they're growing up and thus opt for a job with more balanced expectations and perhaps a related salary? Even not having kids, if you took time off to travel, volunteer, or because of an illness, you also might decide that the 60 hour week just to get ahead career-wise is silly and opt to do something else. In both cases, had you returned to the 60 hour a week life, your different experiences might have made you more productive and allowed further advancement. Just a theory. Does this study account for a change in perspective that taking the time off might have created or been a part of?

For example, if you take off time to be with small children, you might decide that working 60 hours a week is ridiculous while they’re growing up and thus opt for a job with more balanced expectations and perhaps a related salary?

Even not having kids, if you took time off to travel, volunteer, or because of an illness, you also might decide that the 60 hour week just to get ahead career-wise is silly and opt to do something else.

In both cases, had you returned to the 60 hour a week life, your different experiences might have made you more productive and allowed further advancement. Just a theory.

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