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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!

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Rct. Katelyn S. Early, Platoon 4037, Papa Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion, climbs across a Confidence Course obstacle Sept. 2, 2015, on Parris Island, S.C. Recruits tackle, scale and weave their way through the course’s 15 obstacles, which are designed to increase self-confidence. Early, 18, from Anaheim, Calif., is scheduled to graduate Nov. 6, 2015. Parris Island has been the site of Mar...ine Corps recruit training since Nov. 1, 1915. Today, approximately 20,000 recruits come to Parris Island annually for the chance to become United States Marines by enduring 13 weeks of rigorous, transformative training. Parris Island is home to entry-level enlisted training for approximately 50 percent of males and 100 percent of females in the Marine Corps. (Photo by Lance Cpl. Aaron Bolser)

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