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Work Life Balance

Work life balance is a tricky thing to understand. What I understand is that it is the amount of time spent in doing office work against the time you get for personal work. I now believe it is far more than that. I have recently seen very good content because I quit my job and had lots of time. This includes Sacred Games, House of Cards, House MD, Boston Legal. I really could connect with the characters. I felt the thrill when Sartaj Singh was travelling in the train to meet Malcolm Murad, I loved how Frank Underwood played Garret, I was just blown away by Dr House and the kind of douche he was, yet he was a good doctor. The child me in me got excited and all worked up after the shows, but then, one day, the employee in me just could not take it.  This is where it started hitting me. These web series or television shows that we watch so nicely is just about an employee doing a great job by sacrificing their work life balance. Although all the professions that I have seen do not