A woman explains how she stopped working Fridays and checking email constantly to be present at work and home. She used to work late nights and check email at dawn, but now enforces strict boundaries between her career and family life.
My priorities have completely changed. You know, I'm doing it for my family now. It's almost made me up my game, you know, and I am very strict with my boundaries. I think we talked about, you know, I don't work on Fridays, but I, you know, I will check my emails and things like that occasionally. But the Charlotte of old would have just, you know, worked till late, you know, checked her emails, been up at the crack of dawn checking them as well, not being very present. Whereas I find that I have to be very present. I'm present in my work life and I'm present when I'm at home with the family too.