Work-Life Balance: a Myth?

We are pursuing a high income country, which we are expected to increase our productivity, work longer hours to meet the demands of work. Women are encouraged to return to the working sector as soon as they can after giving birth or else their position might be fill with some other person that are free-willingly to work. Despite that, working mothers complaints on the lack of basic facilities such as nursery in the workplace. Furthermore, no decent lactation room facility was provided for nursing working women to continue to breastfeed after returning from work.

Sometimes as the breadwinner of the family, we had to work late leaving our children at home unattended. They leave the house very early in the morning for work and got back way pass the bed time. It hard to even to find some quality time to spend with the family much less finding time to work out in the evening. This work-life conflict is such a depressing and stressful. Can we really pursue a high income county and have a happy personal life at the same time? How can we have both? Does work-life balance really work or it is just a myth?

Well, it might be hard to have it all but if we serious and passionate enought about this, we can sure do it.