A Note on the Work/Life Balance Fallacy
It’s all just life.
Jessica Wildfire wrote an article about how much work it is to pretend you’re having fun.
“ … not everyone defines fun the same way. Some people don’t enjoy what most of us think of as ‘leisure’: riding carousels, standing in line for cotton candy at the state fair, going to a cookout.
“If you don’t like that stuff, you’re labeled a ‘workaholic.’ Many of us will do anything to avoid that label. We’ll even pretend to enjoy baseball. Well, maybe that’s pushing it.” — Dr. Wildfire in “Can You Enjoy Work Too Much?’
I love baseball, but not because it’s fun.
For me, being a professor is fun.
What’s the point of a day off if I can’t spend it reading, thinking, drawing, writing, building, teaching and…