This is a quote from today’s Vancouver Sun:

“According to an RBC Royal Bank poll released Monday in time for Small Business Week, only 39 per cent of small business owners in B.C. feel they are able to balance their time between work and home well, while 57 per cent said, if given an extra hour a day, they’d spend it with family, relax or get caught up with personal matters.

The poll, conducted by Ipsos- Reid, showed that 36 per cent of the 363 B.C. business owners who were surveyed said they work more than five days a week.”

This is very true for me. I run my own business and probably work 60+ hours at it. In today’s market, I am the cheif and the janitor. Yet this isn’t so bad, but at times I think I forget that the reason I got into this was because I was supposed to be “my own boss” and “master of my own time”. Yet the reality is that I am subject to client pressure and deadlines, even if I make them. I think my key is to try and make time for family, as my work will fill any time I give it.