Papa Co

A company devoted to work life balance (not an actual company)

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S&P500 back to bearish mode?  Oil news this morning seems to confirm that S&P500 won’t break the 2100 zone to go higher, so seems a fair chance that it will continue down lower.  

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PapaCo

My son started this name.  The day after I left my old job - he told me that I was now working for “PapaCo”.  A great name - a name that symbolises for me the struggle to maintain a “work-life” balance.  Even the term is wrong “work-life” - it should just be “life”.  I want this blog to be about ideas and innovations to keep life balance.  Work should fit in with life, not the other way around.  I remember reading an email at my last job about a promotion for one of the account directors - “he will be seeing a lot less of his family” it said proudly.  I remember reading it and thinking - what does this say about a company - that it would wilfully, joyously deprive someone of their family?  Fair enough, he may not have cared I don’t know - but I still feel that shouldn’t be seen as a positive.  The culture of a company is set from the top, and that email made me realise that nobody would care about the struggles I was having to keep any semblance of balance.  If you spend your weekends dreading Monday morning and you miss your kids soccer training for a few weeks running even though training runs until 7:30pm - then something has to change.  So for me the name PapaCo represents that being a father (or a mother) is about enjoying the way you choose to work, showing your kids that your life isn’t just a drudgery - that you can get ahead by doing what you enjoy and learning how to make more of what you truly relish - rather than just grasping a few minutes of enjoyment in a working week.  Okay, I will level with everyone - I don’t have any searing insight in to how to do this - I am using this career hiatus to hopefully figure out how to do this more effectively.  So am looking to see what ideas and insights everyone out there has.  I will post some thoughts on a few issues, I don’t even really know yet what I am going to write about, and hopefully will get a few thoughts from those of you out there!