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A comment on Ask HN: How do you get a work-life balance if work is your life?.

Re:Ask HN: How do you get a work-life balance if work is you... by catchnear4321 on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @01:10PM (#35457318)
Do not identify with your job. With your skill set, perhaps, but not your job.

Do projects that don’t belong to your employer. Personal projects, your time, your dime. It can be about your field of interest, just don’t make it too close to your job.

Go somewhere and sit quietly for a while.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you get a work-life balance if work is you... by night-rider on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @02:39PM (#35458637)
> Do not identify with your job

Alan Watts said to see any form of work as a form of play. When you enjoy your work it becomes play. This is why work for many people is their hobby.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you get a work-life balance if work is you... by catchnear4321 on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @04:34PM (#35459992)
You left out the half that your comment echoes.

> With your skill set, perhaps, but not your job.

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