Question of the Day

[ayoub]

How do you separate work stresses from home life?

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The only time I haven't been able to separate it was when home was more stressful than work. These days, rocking out to music in the car on the way home is a great de-stresser :D

Comments

[bronxelf-ag001.livejournal.com]

Since I work from home, this is next to impossible.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Yeah... My mum used to work from home... If anything, it put me off of starting my own business for life...

[bia22.livejournal.com]

When I get home, i immediately put on "play clothes". With the change in wardrobe, I "take off work" and unwind:)

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

That's a good way to do it :D

[miriyasterling.livejournal.com]

I can't say that I'm always successful. I try to do something to unwind and have fun or relax each day.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Yeah... Finding the right thing to do can be tough...

[kingdavey.livejournal.com]

I'm no good at separating the two. Having a rant in my journal often helps a little bit

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

A rant helps :D

[amante-donne.livejournal.com]

I dont really have much stress from work except when the odd prick calls in, I leave what stress i do have at the entrance/exit.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Cool! :D

when it was real bad

[ossie.livejournal.com]

at both places, I would turn the music in the car on the way home up very loud,

that would make me not remember the crap as much from the place I just left,

Re: when it was real bad

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

It definitely works... :D

[smwright.livejournal.com]

I don't really. I try to not get the girls until the end of the day so I've had time to do some more work before they're at home, and then I try hard not to do any until they're in bed. Otherwise, not much separation. Both, for me, are nearly 24/7 jobs.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

You work too hard!

[smwright.livejournal.com]

I do, but that's what tenure is for... relaxing. :)

[indigobluejelly.livejournal.com]

Why do I feel like in the last 4 days these questions have had my name all over them?

I think you're in my brain.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Or are you in mine?

:D

[indigobluejelly.livejournal.com]

Good point...

But to answer you're question. I don't stress to anyone around me, I don't keep it balled up either. I will go to the gym and destroy the cardio machine or pick one part of my body to do an entire workout on for that day.

When I leave work, I don't admit to bring the stress home with me, I admit to bringing the work home with me. Very often I will stay up late working into the night to avoid the stress that will happen if its not done.

But my weekends area always free. More concentration on making my garden all about me.. :D

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Working out is good for de-stressing :D

And yeah, I keep my weekends free too :D

[mighty-rontor.livejournal.com]

When 3 PM rolls around and the work day ends, I am instantly unavailable. "Sorry, but I'm off the clock. Ask me tomorrow," is my standard boiler plate. There are no exceptions. One of the perks of having a union job.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Very cool!

[sorah.livejournal.com]

Excellent question but right now both are a tad stressful. I suspect once I've completed my degree I can relax a bit more.

Oh and once I move into my NEW HOME I'll be even less stressed at home. That is until I see the bills. lol

[spacedlaw.livejournal.com]

By doing completely different things.
At home I do only FUN things: cooking, reading, writing, playing with the family.

[spritegirltn.livejournal.com]

I workout after work to beat the heck out of the stress! If that doesn't work or I can't work out I blare the radio the whole way home and car dance! lol

[1jodie.livejournal.com]

last fall was a challenge for me. it was with my new job and we had a lot of stress at work due to former staff's incompetencies and outright negligences. and i had a lot of family stress--my mom had fallen and she broke her ankle. she had also had a surgery before that (non foot related). and my grandma passed away. needless to say, home and work stress intermingled and i didn't handle it well. that was the worse it's ever gotten for me.

now, when i leave work, i try to leave the work stress at work. and if i can't--i journal about it or talk about it with a friend and it's released!
:-)

[milagro75.livejournal.com]

Im pretty good about leaving work stress at work, though it does infiltrate my dreams soemtimes. :P I try not to "talk shop" about work very much. I have very reasonable deadlines, so I don't stress about those much either. If there was something particularly upsetting that happened, or if I felt like I did something horribly long I might stress, but thankfully those times are also few and far-between.

[seegwa.livejournal.com]

I'm in school - there's no difference between school and home life other than physical location and access to cool chemicals that stain your fingers blue.

[dishapeaches.livejournal.com]

I've worked more than a few super-stressful jobs. As soon as I left, I'd get in my car, CRANK the most headbangin' metal CD I had, and smoke a hit of pot or three. By the time I got home I was back to myself.

Of course, I don't work now, so life isn't all that stressful, except for when I look at the current gas prices.

[donnickcottage.livejournal.com]

I just turn it off. Of course, I don't care about my job so it's easy for me.

[chiropteraclan.livejournal.com]

Keeping home and work in balance is what helps me most. I am looking forward to seeing the difference of having a life where work and school does not dominate and overwhelm everything else. I'm the same though...music in the car, journaling, talking.

[castlelady.livejournal.com]

In the past it was very difficult at times to separate the two, especially when I came home from a crap day at work (and most of them were crap days) to problems at home.

Now I'm a full time student, and my time to unwind is while I'm in school. Yes, I love school THAT much!

[honuhoney.livejournal.com]

interesting question especially since i work from home. it's a challenge every day to keep the two separate. the first step was to transition to two cell phones. the crackberry, which can be ignored after hours and on weekends (except ask me exactly how successful i am at that - especially when things are crazy), and then the bat phone that only a select few have access to. i do my best for balance, i'm a libra after all, but sometimes i don't do it very well. *hugs*

[fox-bard.livejournal.com]

I work at home, so it is all one and the same at the end of the day for me.

[thedaneurysm.livejournal.com]

Asphyxiating myself to spongebob squarepants

[uawildcatgrl.livejournal.com]

I leave work at work...it's mostly just a means to an end for me.

[rowanchey.livejournal.com]

Actually, my home life is where the stress is. Work is my safe haven. And, I'm surprisingly good at keeping a bright and cheerful smile plastered on my face without letting home issues get in the way of my performance at the office. It's exhausting, but necessary.

[hippie-geisha.livejournal.com]

That's simple. I leave work at work. It's kind of hard since Mister and I work at the same place, but we have a rule that we don't bitch about work at home.

[heardthatnoise.livejournal.com]

Talk to friends or family on the way home, change from shoes to slippers, start laundry (= time alone downstairs), and cook dinner.

It is hard not to carry stress home, especially when home is stressing you, too.

[eternalxwhisper.livejournal.com]

I don't think I get that stressed in work. I haven't a lot of responsibilities and it isn't the hardest job going. When I've had a rough day though I'll usually walk it off with James and relax once I get home with a cup of tea/coffee and talk to him about what was bothering me in work.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Sounds delightful :D