30 People Who Prove That Work-Life Balance Doesn't Exist And That It's Just A Word Made Up By The Rich

You don't work to live, you live to work. Endlessly.

Lakeisha

• Published in Interesting
• February 18, 2022

A lot of people talk about maintaining a healthy work-life balance, and that's all great and stuff, but exactly how? When you're constantly meeting deadlines and setting new ones when's the time to even fart in leisure?

Most people are termed workaholics, not because they love to work, but because even if they wanted to maintain a work-life balance, they literally can't. Work becomes an everyday routine because without hitting milestones and meeting deadlines, things could spiral downwards pretty fast.

A majority of people are constantly thinking about their jobs, some meetings, some paperwork... it's crazy that we forget to live for ourselves too. The people who talk about maintaining a work-life balance, who exactly are they?

A majority of them have everything laid out. The struggle is little compared with someone who's just getting started.

I'm not pointing fingers or shaming people, but even if we tried, some of us would never be able to achieve a perfect work-life balance. When you work for a company, you're disposable and replaceable.

It's a scary fact, but I've known a couple of companies who've fired employees for trying to maintain a work-life balance. So here's a bitter fact: the term "work-life balance" is best used when you have everything laid out for you.

I mean, I don't know about you, but I started working when I was 15, and two decades later, I'm still working. It's been over 30 years, and I still haven't figured out this whole work-life balance thing.

If you feel the same, know that you're not alone. Here are 30 people who think that work-life balance doesn't exist.

This will hit people right in the feels.

Facts.

Exactly.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side.

No comments.

Fun things are beginning to feel like chores.

This is a great point.

This is just a dream.

This is so true, when you put it this way.

ROFL. But so true.

I feel you...

Good point.

OMG.

Hustle culture is nauseating.

It's a form of slavery.

We've got to learn and implement this.

This is just sad.

This has happened to me.

No more rat race.

Some people work 7/7 y'all. It's just sad.

If only it rained money...

Go away, Brian.

This is so true, it actually hurts.

Shame.

He was a legend who was mentally and physically crushed by capitalism.

I second this dude.

Uh. Well this isn't very reassuring.

Beats me.

This makes so much sense.

Does she mean it's too much or too little? smh.

It's crazy how some of us have to work 24/7 and still not be paid enough to retire sooner! There may be an exclamation mark at the end of that sentence, but know that it wasn't meant to read funny.

Imagine the life of new parents who don't have the liberty to take the desired number of days off simply because work provides for them. To these people, work-life balance doesn't exist.

The graduates or freshers who're just beginning their work journey have to work hard to prove their worth. For them, work-life balance doesn't exist.

To the people who're underpaid and have to work multiple jobs just to get by, work-life balance doesn't exist.

So before anyone preaches you about maintaining a work-life balance, ask them how much they earn and how little they work, because it looks like for a normal human worker, work-life balance is nothing but a bestselling catchphrase.

What do you think?

Lakeisha