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Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is to work smart when working after hours.

Make sure you know what you are trying to accomplish so you can get done and move on with your day.

One of the most unfortunate work-life narratives out there is that big jobs inevitably require

long hours. Long hours mean you will never see your kids. Thus, many parents and mothers in

particular just won't be or shouldn't be in the running. Now this is obviously a problematic

thing for organizations to believe, as they cut themselves off from a lot of great leaders.

But it's also a problematic thing for individual parents to believe, since people limit their

ambitions, when everyone seems to be screaming that no one can have it all. But it turns out there

is a lot wrong with this story. Sure, plenty of jobs require more than 40 hours a week.

But in my experience looking at thousands of time logs, very few people log more than 60 hours

a week, averaged over the long haul. Even more intriguingly, many people who work long hours

do not work those hours from say 7.30am to 7.30pm, which would preclude seeing their young kids

during the week. A little creativity means people can work long hours and see their families.

When I collected time logs from women who had kids and who made over $100,000 a year

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