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### Gustavo S.

Senior Quality Specialist at Vestas

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# In which way are you living now: Working to live or living to work?

to better explain it's a question o Work-life balance.
- Working to live means you make your life amazed when the questions is living happly.
- Living to work means your Job it's most important that your life and family now, and you will do everything to make it better.

posted October 20, 2009 in Career Management, Work-life Balance | Closed

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### Alex T. F.

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Working to live, definitely. I've never heard of anyone putting on their tombstone "I wish I'd spent more time at work"......but I've heard plenty say they wish they'd spent more time with their family.
In my life, it seems that years birth through 21 took 100 years to pass by.....but the years 22-46 have zipped by in a minute.
I'm in that "finding my calling" mode right now.....I look back at my work life and don't really find that I've made much of a difference. I've been successful but I've not done anything someone else couldn't have done. But I look back at my non-work life and see lots of things that I've done that have made a difference. I think I've made my spouse's life better, my kids life better, my family's life better. Like George Bailey in "It's A Wonderful Life", I can see how I've touched many people personally. But I don't really see that professionally, but hope to find that balance in the near future.

posted October 22, 2009

### Liesbeth L.

Customer Service Advisor France / Benelux

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Everybody is free to decide how much time to spend on work/life & family.
For me work is important to develop your skills, meeting people, exchanging ideas, but family is also very important. A good balance is certainly a wise choice.

posted October 20, 2009

### Firas A.

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Work is an important part of my life, as well as, it is a mean to improve myself, building relations, and having money.
So we work to have money, we need money to satisfy many needs, we satisfy needs to achieve part of happiness.
So it a circle, in which work is important, family is important, health is important, friends are important, knowing God is important, self-confidence also, and rest etc,... work time for work, family time for family..
The core point is to know how you control your life, to be organized, to know what to do, and when to do, to know how to use your time, to know how to manage your life and be the leader and the controller, not to be a slave for anything except God, to know how to be Free and Successful, how to love and beloved...
Make Ur Day A Gooood Oneeee
F.A.A.

posted October 20, 2009

### Natalie K.

Senior IT Specialist at Nordea Bank, Capital Markets & Treasury Securities, Business Development

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Both, but in general I live to work and I enjoy it. I love what I'm doing, and it gives me a great pleasure to work hard, achieve my goals, and develop myself professionally and personally. That makes me happy (i.e. I also work to live!), and this is my work-life balance.

posted October 20, 2009

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### Abdul R.

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Hi Gustavo,
Well, for me, my work is not detached from my life. The harder I work; the more I live.

posted October 20, 2009

### Judy B. M.

Business WRITER | Editor | Blogger | Strategic MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS | B2B | Web Content Creator | BusDev

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Right now finding a rewarding job takes precedence, but that doesn't mean I've put enjoying my life on hold, only that I must forgo some of the luxuries, such as travel. It's essential to find a balance of sorts, no question.

posted October 20, 2009

### Paulo Cesar do N.

Sr. Sales & Solutions Manager

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Good question Gustavo.
During a long time, I've lived to work, but now, certainly I work to live.

posted October 20, 2009

### Marcos G.

Solution Manager at Xerox

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Working to live

posted October 20, 2009

### Markus H.

In Carreer Transition

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Right now I`m living to find work......
That situation apart, life`s a balance between work,family,health,spiritual, social and educational aspects.
If we focus not on all equally, our life`s out of balance and sooner or later we`ll feel empty.
I`d better rephrase the question - because living to work is as onesided and out of balance as working to live.

posted October 20, 2009

### Lanis Brett O.

Software Developer at Westpoint Underwriters

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I think you need a work/life balance as both provide essential benefits. Income aside, work you enjoy and are productive at can certainly provide a sense of pride and accomplishment. Life gives you a release from the stresses of day to day work, hopefully, as well as variety, which to me keeps life interesting and entertaining.

posted October 20, 2009

### Alex N.

Director of Business Development and Sales Engineer for TEC Integration

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Work to Live - I love my job, but I love my friends, family, and free time to do whatever I want more - but that does not mean don't work hard

posted October 20, 2009

### Miguel M.

International Sales Training at Honeywell - Sell more with less effort - International Business Development

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I work to live. However, due to circumstances, work is taking too many hours of my day. This is a temporary situation, only during 2009.

posted October 20, 2009

### Julian A.

Project Manager at F.Hoffmann - La Roche

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Honestly...
Right now I am living to work! However I know that to complete a Masters Degree in one year and get academic awards, plus working full time is not a 'normal' phase of life. Life WILL change !
My work-life balance is really just work-balance - but its a phase of growing/learning and 'sewing the seeds' for future rewards.
That's my 2 cents Gustavo.

posted October 20, 2009

### Kumar K.

HR Lead at Ramco Industries Ltd.

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It is like the chicken and egg story. which one came first whether it is the chicken or the egg. I am living and I am working. both are independent of other. With out the work also people are living.

posted October 21, 2009

### Danilo D.

Programador SAP at Accenture

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Working to live, sure!

posted October 22, 2009

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