From Cultivating Your Career Reputations by Douglas E. Welch…
A Reputation for Balancing Work and Self
Work is a part of our life, not the sole, driving influence. We all have seen people who are subsumed by their work. While it may be fine for a short period of time, relationships quickly start to deteriorate and the person finds that they are more and more isolated from the world as a whole. Then, weeks or months later, they arise from the fog like a groundhog waking up in February, wondering where everyone went.