In recent years as I’ve added more time on the ledger of work life, I crossed over 35 years last year, my thoughts have increasingly returned to the idea of how much time we spend in our life “working“ and how much of our life, do we spend “just living“…

I’m not a business owner, so I’ve always worked for an organization, and have felt a consequential obligation to put the organization needs high up on my list of priorities most days weeks months years… Probably from most all of my 35+ years,

And so then I think about when does (work) start and stop each day, what are the hours I’m putting in, and I often think about an old friends comment way back early in my career, she said “I start counting it as work time the first moment I started thinking about WORK… “

And she was making a joke, we were both hourly employees at the time, but that little piece of humor has stayed with me all these years later, because as I’ve gotten older and had more responsibility, I think about work, an awful awful a lot…

And so balance is key.

I could easily pour more of myself into work activities for it employer, until there was nothing left for my kids or me. And still there would be more to do. It’s never “enough”, so to speak.

So I give a little more time than some other folks sometimes, and strive to do the main functions of my job and fill in the bits where I can too.

I want to do my part, I want to earn my keep in my paid work life.

But I also want to have quality time with my kids as they grow up, it won’t be too long before they are grown, they are my priority,

And taking care of my elders, helping them where and when I can, this of late is taking more time just now, but it’s the thing to do, it’s a life value thing,

And I want to read and write and talk to people and be in adventures, I get that in snippets, like with this blog.

So yea, those are some thoughts on work life from a guy through about 2/3 of his life (I hope!), a bit of a gamble bout thoughts I need to scribble down, preserve, share,

And as I often end here it’s just well, or at least I’m striving to make it,

GOOD.