This MontGuide is designed to help working adults manage the stressors and strike a better balance between work and family. The needs of your job and the needs of your family may often interfere with one another. For example, your boss may want you to finish a work project, but your child wants you to attend her school play. You may feel overloaded by the roles you must play at work and at home. At times, you may feel you have too little time or energy to do all that needs to be done to care for your children, be employed and have any time for yourself or friends.
Workers carry negative and positive feelings home from work or to work from home.
For example, you might feel so exhausted after work that you lack the time and energy to spend with your family, or come home ready for an argument. Or you might be so preoccupied with a problem at home that you have difficulty focusing on your job. On the positive side, you may have had a great day at work and come home ready for fun and games, or go to work satisfied that things on the home front are going well. Perfect harmony probably isn't possible. But harmony is greater between work and family life when your job helps you reach your family goals, and vice versa.