Back at my old job, my boss would always say that he wanted his employees to maintain a strong "work-life balance." I was always happy to oblige. With an easy 8-5 schedule, good insurance, vacation time and the internet on my work PC, achieving a good balance between work and life was easy.
Now that I'm self-employed and run an obscure local media and trivia empire, it's become a little more difficult to keep up the concept. I guess you can say my work has become my life and my life has become my work. It really is hard to differentiate the two. For example, when I watch the news and see an attractive woman reporting in front of an apartment fire, I don't just think "I hope no one was hurt" or "Wow, that girl is hot." I wonder "Wow, that girl's hot. I wonder where we should rank her in the 20 Hottest Women in the Oklahoma City media. I better hop on her Facebook page and grab pics before it goes private...and yeah, I hope no one was hurt."