Key Takeaways
Work/life balance is achievable depending on your title.
The workforce landscape is changing to digital.
Work/life balance becomes harder to obtain as the higher ambitions rise.
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Acting in Balance
Do you want to know something funny thing about life? It grants us a never-ending learning experience. We here at Scriptingthewhy are familiar with many subjects on computers, malware, and items of the like.
However, life is one thing we’re still trying to get a handle on. Or at least understand the inner workings of life. To us, it seems like someone handed us a VR headset and said” Go forth, venture, and see the world.”
Being in this, what some would argue, a VR simulator, it seems like we’re always “on”. Viewing how our society is structured, the landscape suggests that we may be set to “on” for the upcoming years.
A quick shout-out to not being able to retire, we were looking forward to the gold watch, finally seeing our families, and flatlining on a sandy beach with a drink at hand. With us always being “on”, how do we manage the work/life model is a question we’ve been asked.
We’ll try to answer it although it’s a mixed bag. Keep in mind this could get trippy.
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So, there are many things we manage and manage well. However, the work/life balance or attempting to balance work life and home life tends to be an issue. How is it an issue for us?
Technically being categorized as content creators, content needs to be created for consumption, this ties into getting paid. Years ago, working in some form of labor was a trade-off for receiving payment, but now the landscape has shifted to online where obtaining viewers and views leads to a bigger payday.
Remember the saying “He who has the gold, makes the rules”, that has now changed to “He who has the most viewers, has the power.” The downfall of being content creators aside from being in another overcrowded market, is everything can be and is at some point turned into content.
This is a dual-edged sword as you can gain new experiences but in the same step lose your audience. We know this fear all too well.
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Consistent panic aside, you want to know how we manage a balance. Sorry to disappoint you, we don’t. Most of our attempts are met with failure, but this is expected. However, don’t worry, we do make time for lunch at least.
A work/life balance sounds like a good idea, but it seems to be another tool used to keep people poor. Take a view of the lifestyles of the rich and famous, they’re taking part in a multitude of projects to keep funding. To us, the quest for work/life balance seems like mediocrity, finding some way of justifying staying in place.
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