CHAPTER 66 WORK-LIFE BALANCE

The coming back from their perfect holiday at a lake house was not a great joy for the Thompsons as they got back to the real life. The summer leisure and freedom became replaced by the noise of e-mailing, meetings and deadlines. Jenna and Ryan also struggled to return to the workplace after the honeymoon period; they had hoped it would be easier. Jenna a marketing firm employee recently assigned to a new project was overwhelmed with work as she had expected. Working nights became almost a norm and she started feeling guilty of not being able to read Lily bedtime stories. At the same time Ryan had his own career difficulties. A promotion to senior software engineer meant more demands were placed on one; he or she had more tasks to accomplish. He noticed that he started taking work home with him, his laptop was almost a permanent resident of the dining table. It is the fictional story of a busy professional woman named Jenna, who one day came home on a Tuesday evening overloaded w