Maintaining a healthy work-life balance can be difficult in today’s culture that celebrates being always on. In fact, 94 percent of 1,000 professionals surveyed by the Harvard Business Review said they put in 50 or more hours a week at work. What’s more, nearly half that group clocked in more than 65 hours a week.
These days everyone wants to be an entrepreneur and launch a startup. It’s cool to be your own boss, wear the same clothes to work every day, have a ping-pong table in the fun room, and brainstorm with your team over pizza at 3 in the morning.
Still, there is a huge gap between the way people picture the startup life and the actual reality. In fact, the gap is so big, you can easily call it a chasm. Multiple factors have created it and continue to widen it every day:
The media that glorifies highly successful founders, yet says little about the rest of them, which in fact represents the majority
The pot full of gold that people dream of finding at the end of the rainbow, i.e. a startup turned unicorn
Blockbusters that make you want it even more
Let’s take all these urban legends out of the way, even if it’s just for a second. The picture is not so bright anymore, right?
