Your Strengths Include: Work/Life Balance

As developers, many of us are fortunate to be passionate about our work. However, “passion” often ends up being coded language for “working extra hours”! Things like personal projects, maintaining a portfolio website, or even keeping up-to-date on new libraries and best practices takes time and effort that we might prefer to spend in other areas.
In the end, we all only have 24 hours in a day, 168 hours in a week. Between our family, career, health, and happiness, what should we prioritize?

We’ll discuss tips for setting boundaries while maintaining career progression, all the while emphasizing making intentional, empowered decisions about your happiness.

Work+life balance? Why not both!

Transcript

1. Your Strengths Include: Work/Life Balance Parth Padgaonkar Android @ Front
5. Work/Life Balance – First sentence on Wikipedia for Work Life Balance “The state of equilibrium in which the demands of personal, professional, and family life are equal”
6. “…in which the demands of personal, professional, and family life are equal”
7. “…in which the demands of personal, professional, and family life are equal”
8. Agenda I. Be mean to Apple II. Components of Work/Life Balance III. Self-Assessment IV. Making Choices, Building Balance V. Q&A
9. Agenda I. Be mean to Apple. ✔ II. Components of Work/Life Balance III. Self-Assessment IV. Making Choices, Building Balance V. Q&A
10. – Parth Padgaonkar
 4 seconds ago “I am not a doctor” Disclaimer
11. (Arch) Components 
 of Work/Life Balance
12. A Scientific Fake 
 Pie Chart
13. A Scientific Fake 
 Pie Chart Family Personal Professional
14. Professional Component Things relating to your career that require time
15. Professional Component • “standard” work hours 
 (e.g. 9a-5p) • Voluntarily working nights/ weekends to complete a project • professional development • Answering emails/text/ Slack outside of business hours • “crunching” or mandatory overtime • Thinking about work outside of business hours
16. Personal
 Component Things relating to you that require time
17. Personal Component • sleep • non-work hobbies • gym/fitness • “emotional labor required”/glue • vacation/travel • disability/health issues
18. Family
 Component Things relating to your family or community that require time
19. Family Component • children/childcare • religious/community groups • moving houses/flats • household chores • partner/spouse
 || new relationship 
 || breakups • caring for a family member • spending time with friends
20. Self Assessment What does your work/life balance look like?
21. bit.ly/2ubqJQ0 This wheel should represent reality, not aspiration!
22. Balance Wheel Analysis
23. Balance Wheel Analysis • How does your Life Balance Wheel compare to your calendar? (i.e. reflect your reality) • Are you happy where your time was allocated? • What areas might you want to reprioritize/deprioritize?
24. Making Choices,
 Building Balance
25. Who did I talk to? Me Android Friends
26. Balance Takes
27. Balance Takes Balance
28. Balance Takes Intention Balance
29. Balance Takes Consistency Intention Balance
30. Balance Takes Balance
31. Unless I’m working on something I feel is directly for my personal benefit, I don’t write work code after hours; my laptop stays closed and out of reach.” Balance Takes Balance ❝
32. Balance Takes Balance My problem was that I enjoyed working too much, and allowed it to monopolize my free time. 
 Burnout happened because work became stressful and draining, and that meant suddenly the main thing in my life was stressful.” ❝
33. Balance Takes Balance • Diversify your happiness • Balance is a trend-line, not an (x,y) point • Pressure needs balance, too!
34. Balance Takes Consistency
35. I’ve found myself unapologetically just taking time for my wellbeing, when I need it.” Balance Takes Consistency ❝
36. Balance Takes Consistency There is almost nothing that will come in the way of me and my exercise/hobbies/sleep schedule. 
 I feel no guilt for pursuing them.” ❝
37. Balance Takes Consistency • Build consistency at work • Build consistency with yourself
38. Balance Takes Intention
39. Balance Takes Intention I don’t have the best WLB, but I’ve found a point where my career is thriving, but I’m heading home enough that I’m still happy, healthy, and feel fulfilled by my hobbies and life. 
 
 Sometimes I think staying late at work can be exactly the right call — if it’s buying you a future you want” ❝
40. Balance Takes Intention • Choose your job intentionally • Allocate your time intentionally • Make your own change
41. You are more important than your code
42. • 11 Ways to Tell if a Company Values Work-Life Balance
 —Before You Take the Job
 bit.ly/2JnShZv • Being Glue
 bit.ly/2wuQxHr Resources • San Francisco Gender Equality Principles Indicator
 bit.ly/2FNvdSZ • You Don’t Have to Know It All
 bit.ly/2Yv8qm6
43. Work Happier
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