• Question: Does your work take up a great deal of your time and take away much of your social life?

    Asked by laceyc to Amit, Emily, Joanne, Martin, Paige on 14 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Joanne Davies

      Joanne Davies answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      Good morning laceyc! 🙂

      My work doesn’t take up any of my social life at all.

      I can plan my work so that I don’t miss out on any events with my children, family and friends.

      When I’m working away, I can always keep up with what’s going on at home with facebook, email and the phone.

      I also get a social life in different countries with new friends who invite me to visit new places in the afternoons and evenings. 🙂

    • Photo: Martin Wallace

      Martin Wallace answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      I’m lucky in that I don’t have to work incredibly long hours or work night shifts which would affect my social life a lot.
      I work 37.5 hours during the week, and am free to go home at 5:00 every day, and 3:00 on a Friday. So that means my evenings are my own and I can spend them doing hobbies, cooking, spending time with my wife, visiting friends, and all the things that I enjoy.
      Being able to relax at the end of the day is very important and helps with your own health and well being, as well as menaing you can be more productive at work and enjoy what you are doing.

    • Photo: Emily Bullen

      Emily Bullen answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      I work a 37.5h week, most of the time. It’s pretty flexible though, so some weeks there won’t be much on and I’ll do less, some weeks I’m really busy and I do a bit more. So there’s plenty of time for a social life, and most companies are pretty flexible on what times you work (some people prefer to have a lie in and get to work at 10, some people prefer to go home early, and they arrive around 8).

      I socialise quite a lot with my colleagues, who have also become my friends! 🙂

    • Photo: Amit Pujari

      Amit Pujari answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      I work at the University as a (research) engineer. And one of the best things about working at the University is, its quite flexible! I can work hard and still enjoy my social life. But if you are thinking about working as a doctor (in NHS) then its better to speak to people in the NHS.

    • Photo: Paige Brown

      Paige Brown answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      Hi laceyc!

      My work does take up a good deal of my time… partly because I do so many things right now. I have two part-time jobs (as an engineering communications intern and as a diving coach/instructor) and I go to school (in mass communications). On top of that I blog for Nature Network and try to participate in outreach projects like this one as much as I can!

      But the wonderful thing is that all of this adds to my social life. I have a boyfriend who is wonderful… he is also a scientist and an engineer so we talk about EVERYTHING. The people in my classes are friendly and we can always discuss our work together. I would say that all the things that I do can add to my social life instead of taking away from it!

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