Many people prioritize their jobs more than their family and personal relationship, they spend most of time at their working and when they get back home, their minds are still focused on their jobs making them absence in their homes even when they are physically present.
Your are only irreplaceable in your home, but you are are 100% replaceable at your place of work. Your job do not care about you beyond what you can offer for them. No matter what you offer for your job, their love for you only only depends on your usefulness to them. If anything happens to you, it's only a matter of time before you are replaced by someone else, and soon you will be forgotten and deleted from their records and system as if you never existed before.
If you are sick today your job can only give you enough time to recover and resume work but your family will never leave your side even if your illness takes longer time to recover from. Even in that condition you still remain who you are in your home and still given the respect and love you deserve because blood is thinker than water.
Your home is your real life not your job. No matter the love people show you at your place of work, it will never be compared to the unconditional love you get from your home. While you are working a job, never be too obsessed with climbing the ladder of promotion at expense of the people in your home.
Work can never be above your family members no matter how much money you are getting paid. I was talking to my first daughter who got a job at a manager to dispatch company branch office in my city about how important it is to balance work and family life and she was not getting what I was saying. She was like “my work is everything to me, I don't want to play with it.”
Hmmm! How can someone says that the work they do is more than their family to them just because you are getting paid a salary every month. This my girl would leave the house at 7 am in the morning and return home by 9 PM every day. Not because they are paying her for extra time at work but because she feels comfortable at the office according to her.
I had to let her understand about the place of family in her life and why she needs to have value for her family as much as she values her work just like I have explained before above. When she is sick, it's the family that care for her not her job and when she had a problem at work place, it is still the same family she runs to for guidance and support.
Being fully present at home does not prevent anyone from being successful in any job career; you can work hard as much as you can, pursue ambitions as much as you can, but never let all these makes you see your family and your home as second place in your life.
