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manhattan is conduting a screened/anonymous question on people her readers admire.

In answering, I effectively said one very key thing I wish to redocument here. Which is that I admire people who achieve the work/life balance by working more, not less, and integrate what they do into everything as opposed to the more traditional version you hear, especially when it's women arguing with each other (in really unproductive ways) about husbands and/or babies. The work/life balance does not require a withdrawal from the playing field, and we should not believe the people who want to convince us it does. It's an option. So's just about anything. And yes, there are economic factors, but those generally aren't in significant play amongst the people who have the luxury of the discussing the work/life balance, and are not the focus of this particular thought.

Being more for me, means being more for others. It's not an inverse proportion, as I think we're too often trained to believe. Sure, I may have to sacrifice sleep, but I don't have to sacrifice me.

Someone will surely decide this is a "stay at home moms don't do real work" post and will flame me for not having children (this is not a "stay at home moms don't do real work" post, and please don't fucking flame me; I've no patience). My work/life balance and goals vary a lot from most people's, and when I philosophize around here, it's just me trying to find my way, which is different from a lot of people's.

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