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I am positive we all know the quote “nobody goes to the grave saying they wished they had spent more hours at work” yet a great number of us feel the requirement to spend more and more hours away from family and people we love in favour of work.

We appear to be embracing a “coat on seat” culture where it is important for our bosses to see our coat on our chair when they arrive at work, and it is still there when they go home. We must be enthusiastic to be working so many hours. In fact these hours are probably not all industrious. If we are most concerned to be seen to be doing something, we may not actually be doing anything valuable.

When you take into account the many hours spent driving to and from work and it is really not unexpected that people are exhausted. They are probably spending half of each week day either at work or getting there, which does not leave much time to enjoy with family and friends. As the weekend comes all they want to do is sleep and relax.

So, family life can be affected. Wives are losing out on quality time together and can think they are missing the support they need. Children are aware that there is no time to take them to clubs or for treats, and feel they are missing out. It seems a no-win situation for everybody.

Could your work/life balance be better if you were to Work From Home? Think of the advantages this could bring to your life. There have always been options to Work From Home, but recently there has been a growth in this market. With greater|better|increased[/spin] use of the Internet Business is booming and with it openings for Online Jobs, which do not require a commute to the office, are rising.

Sometimes, when we are so busy, we do not have the chance to sit back and review our lives, the way we are living them, and what we really want to achieve. We need cash to pay the bills. Our career gives us the chance to do this, and as long as everything is progressing well, we carry on as we are even though we know deep down that our health and personal life are suffering for the sake of work.

Over the past year many employees have been made redundant as the recession hit companies both large and small, and this has enabled people who would never have seriously weighed up the pros and cons of Online Jobs in the past are now thinking that a job in the Internet Business may be the move for them.

The chance to Work From Home would instantly cut a few hours a day from the working week, without in reality spending any fewer hours working. The time saved may mean you are more awake and therefore your friends and loved ones will be able to spend more time with you and you will become more relaxed.

Redundancy may now be your friend as it gives you the break you needed and the opportunity to become self employed, in charge of your own working destiny, working in a growing market – the Internet Business, and with nobody but yourself to answer to in your daily working life.