How fitting this TED talk is from Sydney, which from my experience, demonstrates a much sought-after lifestyle of work-life balance. However, as Nigel Marsh mentions, our ability to balance life and career choices rests on our own shoulders, and NOT our employer, government, nor societal culture. The excuses I often hear - my job makes me work long hours, I don't have a lot of vacation time, etc. - merely reflect our personal in/decisions and sacrifices for the sake of (our definition of) success. We can define success as we wish: a pile of money, the smiles on our family's faces, a list of suffixes added to our name. But if you secretly continue to scream in desperation, working long hours at a job you hate to buy things you don't need to impress people you don't like, then I suggest the pressure and expectation to change should be shifted from outside forces onto yourself.
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