How do you define work-life balance?
What does wlb mean to you? Does it mean never having to open your laptop and work past office hours? Or having to do OT work from time to time as long as it’s paid?
I’m in a dilemma because I came from a company with good culture (great people, pretty chill workload where I didn’t have to work outside office hours, leaves were easy to file and no leave rejections during my stay) but was low-paying. I jumped ship for a greener pasture where the pay was significantly higher but the workload doesn’t seem manageable within office hours. Employees are known to sometimes OT (malala) just to finish the tasks but unpaid, and this really is the culture. This doesn’t happen everytime though, but it happens from time to time. People around me say that it’s like that especially for newbies and that “sanayan lang”; however, I doubt that this is true.
What do you think? Should I start planning my exit plan and next steps?
P.S. Please be kind whb responding 🥹 This is also my first time posting/asking here since this has been eating me up a lot recently.