What a life!
A lot of work, in other words, both at home and abroad, i.e. both domestically and career-wise.
All right, media examples of people either doing or not doing things by halves:
1. Caroline, a lawyer, used to work 16-hour days. ‘I’d get up at 6am and be in the office for 7am. I rarely left before 9pm, but would then do more work when I got home. This was my routine six, often seven, days a week - work, eat, sleep.
‘That was it. I made no time for anything else. Family, friends and relaxing were less important than climbing the corporate ladder.’
Despite her unfailing commitment to her job, Caroline became a victim of the recession and lost her job last year. Without work, she says she felt like a ‘drug addict going through cold turkey’.
‘The only thing that kept the fear and anxiety at bay was exercise. I began exercising like a demon. I’d run for up to two hours in the morning, then go to the gym, then for a swim or another run.’
It was only when she broke her ankle and was forced to rest that she had the time to reflect on what had happened.
‘For a while, I lost interest in almost everything. I struggled even to get out of bed,’ she says.
‘I realised I had an obsessive personality and had substituted one obsession for another. I also realised that I was a nervous, anxious wreck without these emotional crutches.’
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