how do you balance your personal life with your job?

I'm lucky that my current job is not demanding at all. I go to work on time, and leave on time. I never needed to work on weekends and holidays, so my work-life balance is pretty great. I think I would never stay with a job that would require me to work overtime and even on weekends, cause I don't want to sacrifice my life for earning more.

i believe that balance is the key to everything therefore you should be able to successfully balance both your professional and personal life. Otherwise, you need to really look into what needs to be changed. Try to also have a system or try to have better time management. also, it would be good if you take the time to reevaluate your prioritizes in life. if you feel that you need to kill yourself by working so hard that everything else suffers, then i don't think that is "living the life" that you want for yourself. The key is to always feel "happy" about what you do so it wouldn't even feel like work at all. personally, what i did was come up with steps to get to where i am now.i use to work so hard that my health failed. you need to create a plan of action by writing down the steps as to how you can make things happen. writing things my plans from step 1 - step (whatever number)really helped me out.good luck!

my job is not that hectic. i have a definite time when to work and out from the building. i work at night so not much to do during that time outside. am not a party goer or something like that. sometimes if i have a very important thing to do during my workday, i just ask for a leave. well i dont have much activities aside from work hehehe..

Because I am a working mom, my first priority is still my family. I see to it that my weekends are saved for my family. This is the time for me to do all the house chores (Including laundry,marketing,planning menu meals,etc). It is also my time for family bonding, watching movies, TV, going out,etc. I can work up to the neck for the weekdays but on weekends, it's my rest and family day!

I see to it, that when my husband is home already ( i come home from work at about 6:30 p.m. i, while he comes home 9:30 ) , i attend to his needs and just be with him , sharing stories for the day and watching TV before we sleep. We also see to it that before we sleep, we get to speak or text to our daughter, who is studying in a far city. I see to it that when there is an unexpected entertaining of some company visitirs after 6:00 p.m. until late at night, he will be notified immediately thru phone and vice versa. That way, even if i am so busy at work, we get to have time for each other still, at the end of the day.

I worked all the time for practical reasons. Life here is very difficult and without work how can i supply my basic needs. And the demand of my work is really huge, I am on call for 24/7 so I am allowed to go home very seldom. I go home once in 3 months and only for 6 days without pay so I am kinda frustrated when i received my paycheck so that is also the reason why I am not able to go home. I tend to see my parents, relatives and boyfriend very seldom but the communication is always there. text messages and phone calls are always updated.But if given the chance i would really love to see them everyday and be with them while working.

I guess I am one of those people who's job and personal life have always been intertwined. I have always been self-employed and my father was before me. I was a professional musician for the first 12 years of my carrier and was always ready to take on a gig and many days, I was rehearsing with other entertainers or practising some score on my piano. I then became a therapist and that has been my work for the largest part of my life. People call me and e-mail me constantly for advice and I am always ready to talk or communicate with them. I seem to be lucky as I have always enjoyed my work and never really see it as a chore. I think that maybe we all have something that we were born to do, and if we are doing it, then we are content with it and don't see it as work. _Derek

When I worked I was able to balance my personal life with work quite well, that is into I was at one job where I was ALWAYS working. I found it quite difficult to be social, and so quit that job as it was adding stress I didn't need. Then when I found another job I was already a member of mylot and so balanced all three, my job, my personal life, and mylot. It was actually quite easy. I am glad to be able to ahve mylot to fall back on now that I don't have a job, but hope to find another job soon and balance all three again.

I always make sure that the scale tips towards my personal life. I feel guilty whenever the scale tips towards work. It's not that I allow the demand of my job to overcome my personal life, there will always be instances I have to temporarily set aside personal life to do my job. They rarely happen anyway.

HI dear, I always careful of being equally manage with personal as well as professional life. There was a time I find too much involved in professional importance. Though it was hardworking atmosphere I got a lot of life achievements through my dedicated efforts. However, we need a life balance with both the environments. Spend more time with family and others while we are with them and more concentration and dedication in the filed of job. For me both are important and I enjoy the same with its respective areas as and when I involved with these areas. THank-s

I'm not very good at keeping these two aspects of my life separated, but that's how it's always been for me. I take my laptop to the kitchen with me and I type a few more paragraphs while cooking, I balance my checkbook when I'm watching a football game with my father and grandfather, and my phone is constantly ringing at the worst possible times. In a way, I don't think that can be avoided for those of us who work on the Internet, with clients who live on different time zones - it's getting more and more difficult to draw a clear line between private life and work.

To some extent everyones job affects their personal lives in some ways i just don't let it even get to me anymore...

I think it should be a balance of both by learning to manage our time wisely. Both our persona life and other priorities like our work or job are important aspects of our life that we have to give equal attention to. For me, simple time management would be one key to be able to maintain balance between these two. =D