Does Work/Life Balance in Your 20s Hurt Your Career?

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Money with Katie

Self-improvement, Education, Business, Investing, How To

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🗓️ 10 February 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

"Work-life balance in your 20s is an easy way to guarantee a mediocre career." After seeing a tweet that made this statement and sharing on the Money with Katie Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn2FFo2OqUw/), Katie and Henah chat through the topic, ask what "work/life balance" and "mediocrity" truly mean, and run through some of the Instagram responses they've seen. - Welcome back to #RichGirlRoundup, Money with Katie's weekly segment where Katie and MWK's Executive Producer Henah answer your burning money questions. Watch their full conversations here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHvvquEbj_eVTRet6cw2ZzhDux3lybWS8 New episodes every Friday. Each month, we'll put out a call for questions on her Instagram (@moneywithkatie) and select a few to answer. Transcripts can be found at podcast.moneywithkatie.com. - Read Money with Katie: https://moneywithkatie.com/ Follow Money with Katie! Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/moneywithkatie Twitter - https://twitter.com/moneywithkatie TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@moneywithkatie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	How can someone who's in their early 20s even have this take?
0:12.1	How can you say a mediocre career is built from work-life balance if you're 23?
0:17.1	I didn't know he was 23.
0:18.5	Right?
0:19.5	I thought he was in his 30s.
0:20.5	I thought he had actually done something first.
0:23.5	This week's episode was inspired by a piece of what I can only call engagement bait
0:50.5	that
1:09.4	All right, Hannah.
1:10.8	So this tweet surfaced my attention.
1:13.6	Originally, I think I actually did see it.
1:15.4	feed and scrolled past it, and then you sent it in our team slack. And you were like,
1:20.3	can we please roast this take? I did. So yeah, Katie, I was also scrolling past it. And then I
1:26.6	said, you know what? This man needs a talking to you. So let's flame them. Here's what the tweet
1:32.7	said, work life balance in your 20s is an easy way to guarantee a mediocre career. So Katie,
1:40.1	you and I have not actually discussed this one on one. So I just we haven't we intentionally saved
1:44.4	this. So the conversation would be truly live. I want to hear exactly what you're thinking,
1:49.4	because I know you know what I'm thinking. Okay. So I guess I cheated in the sense that I did
1:55.1	read the comments on the post. I don't how many comments did I get? Like 300 something.
2:00.6	Okay. So just for context, that's unbelievable. Like we've rarely pressed even like 100
2:07.4	comments. So I was reading them. And I love I love our community because they always bring
2:14.9	the receipts and there were multiple people that were like, I just looked this guy up on LinkedIn.
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