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Balance is a word with a lot of baggage. Ask any hunter-gatherer. Or for that matter, any dairy farmer. Or an NFL football player. Or an obsessive neuropathologist.

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Confining a skill-oriented white collar job into a 40 hour week is a rare skill, especially when the skills involved have a short halflife. But it can be done. It doesn't hurt to show up on Monday morning rested and refreshed. Feeling like you are constantly reacting in the work environment is taken by time management specialists to be a sign of poor time management skills. Sure there is a constant pressure in most organizations to lapse into a reactive mode, but why succumb? Because you're burned out from staying up too late the night before downloading version 7.9.1 of this week's latest and greatest?

The upside on the hiring side is that young people with poor time management skills often have a poor sense of the value of their time or the compensation available with a heaping dose more discipline.

I've seen a lot of high turnover shops who on the surface complain about hiring costs, but couldn't possibly stay in business at the compensation level required to eliminate churn. Both software consulting shops and accounting firms. Burn them and churn them is a viable business model. Many college grads sign up for a year at such an outfit to get that critical first job on their resume.

What I haven't seen are people who combine levels of talent and creativity succeed in compartmentalizing their mental life. Startup companies involve incessant problem solving, and sometimes career consultants or time management people will confuse this with true creativity, which is altogether different.

It's not a sign of professionalism to smudge the boundary. Smudging the boundary can be considered careerism on one end of the spectrum, or called to the cloth on the other (for the fashion conscious).

I'm as smudged as any human living, but I don't rationalize this within a careerist imperative. Modern society has taken a vow. Like the borg, we are one flesh with our technology, for better or worse, in sickness or health, until death do us part. This is a marriage I take seriously. Unlike the ceremonial vow, this one might prove to have real teeth. What's the alimony payment on a trillion tons of CO2? We owe, we owe, it's off to work we go. One form of compartmentalization for day to day living, another for civilization surviving the next century. To each his own.

Are there any records of (other) animals in nature, namely mothers, culling off her weaker children? Here are three examples.

Askmen Top 10 Bad Animal Kingdom Mothers

Lioness:

Any cubs of less than 2 years old are killed by the male to stop any future rivals challenging him for the pride, and also to encourage the lionesses to go into heat, allowing him to begin his own dynasty. The lionesses allow this to happen -- a cruel edge to their mothering nature.

Black Bears:

Black bears like to have litters of two or three cubs, as it takes a similar amount of effort to raise one cub as it does three. Because of this, it has been documented that if a black bear gives birth to just one cub, she will sometimes simply abandon it and will hope for a larger litter the following year. Unlike many animals that may abandon young which are sick or weak, the bear will abandon the youngster simply for being on its own.

African Black Eagle:

The African Black Eagle usually lays two eggs, although one is generally no more than an insurance policy. The idea of an insurance policy is quite common in the animal kingdom, but it is the manner in which the unwanted young is disposed of which is particularly shocking. The mother will feed only one chick, and as it grows stronger it will peck its weaker sibling to death. What is especially gruesome about this is that the mother will look on impassively as her youngster is dispatched.

In hindsight, aborting a potential human in the womb seems a lot less brutal.

So you're agreeing that they're the same thing? If so we might as well make laws that make it legal to abandon your children at any age. Oh wait...

I am not the only one

Check the link http://men.style.com/gq/features/full?id=content_2 526/

Unless you confused booger with burger then you are right !

I'm not making a stab at the quality of the article here, but this seems to be like a little bit of self promotion. I mean, http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr? http://www.when.was.this.in.style.com? And the poster comes from the website.

Please don't mod this up or down, I'm just saying that I find there's something wrong with how this story got on /.

It's also done globally as the article pointed out. Sneaky sneaky google.

(This still isn't evil by googles definition because "Evil is what Sergey says is evil." and this tactic propably adds some additional millions of dollars to Sergeys pocket)

My only job perk is Vogue!

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