legal sanity

Just a post-on-the-fly here as I make my way home to watch the New York Mets in playoff action. I’m a lifelong Mets fan and now I’m thrilled to share my passion with my kids. Our time watching the games and building our baseball card collection connects us in a meaningful way. It de-stresses me after my work day and recharges my personal energy stores. 

There’s much cyber commentary on recognizing and relieving workplace stressors. Ultimately, it’s up to each of us to find and walk our personal path to career sanity. But, we can all use a little helpful guidance along the way. 

For some telling empirical data on our society’s workforce, we can peruse the statistics dispensed in a csmonitor.com article called Backstory: Office hours by the numbers. This statistical overview pairs very well with a CareerJournal.com piece profiling the Top 14 Reasons We’re Stressed Out. 

Moving on to some preventive measures we can take to counter job stress and refuel; Carl Honore – an advocate for living well by slowing down – offers us a view into what some companies, towns and parents are doing In Praise of Slowness. 

And those of us who don’t equate de-stressing with slowing down can take heart and inspiration from a set of articles on people exploring work-life synergy through sport. I particularly enjoyed this look at women lawyers who take out their workplace frustrations in the roller derby rink.