Is Your Quarter-Life Crisis Causing an Imbalance in Your Work Life?

"You will never feel truly satisfied by work, until you are satisfied by life" - Heather Schuck, The Working Mom Manifesto

When I research "Work-Life Balance", most of the articles or web postings fall in the critical category. Not many people think that there is such a thing as combining your work and your life and doing it in the most productive way. Focusing on one thing to the exclusion of all others has it's costs. Society has set up the absurd idea that we can do everything and we can do it all perfectly. This ideology is one that many have taken on. Ever wonder why you sometimes see men and women trying to manage a million things at once? And have a hard time doing so? Whether it being their children and their careers, or their careers and their social lives, or their extra curricular actives and their careers? In today's society, we see these men and women but we also see students, being college and otherwise, trying to maintain a healthy balance of school, work, and their social lives. In some cases, these students are us. There is such a thing as having a melt down in your 20's. This is presumed to be a concept called aand it isn't new.

If you're consumed about questioning the direction of your career, relationships, and overall life purpose- don't worry. I think that it's actually more normal than not. Some of us feel that because we've graduated from some sort of college/ university with some sort of degree/diploma, that we need to find a job NOW. Like, RIGHT NOW. We keep fighting for that longing need to feel accomplished, like we didn't waste our time and money getting OSAP, or bank loans, or lines of credit, or basically ANY source of money-borrowing to get an education. These thoughts come to us when were stressed, when were trying to balance our workload, with our day-to-day lives.

Varci Vartanian says it best in her article, Powering Through Your Quarter-Life Crisis. She helps us (the struggling student population) to see that there isn't one set solution to figuring out our "perfect life path" but there are ways of achieving it with time and motivation.