Quote Originally Posted by onimity View Post
I mean no personal criticism of anyone here, but I think it is sad that our culture is such that our only time to connect with the people we love or the people we need to communicate with is when we're hurdling ourselves down the road at absurd speeds, when we're engaged in our most dangerous activity of the day. Our lives are so complicated that we must do everything at once and in doing so we give everything a fraction of the attention it deserves. I just don't understand it.
Not to thread drift too much (as if we haven't already ), but I couldn't agree more with this. I've been trying for more than a year to find a different job with less stress, fewer hours and more time to spend with those I love and do the things I want to do. But, I still have to pay the bills, so I have to keep this one until I can find something else. There seems to have been a major cultural shift away from quality of life. Our upper firm management just suggested that the partners would really appreciate it if the associates worked through Thanksgiving and Christmas so that they would have larger bonuses. And implied that those who don't will not be thought well of. Nope, I'm not going to - but who knows if I will have a job in January.