Where to draw the line?
Does work take preference over family? Should we actually give preference to the work commitments more than our family?
We keep reading the forwarded mails which highlight the priority of family in life in comparison with work but where do we actually draw the line. Let’s take the example, you have committed to travel onsite on a Friday and you know no one else in the current position can replace you for this onsite work and you are well aware of the happening on project front and on Thursday all you family members except you fall sick. What will you do. The illness is not a mild fever which will be cured with 2 doses of antibiotics but a high fever which makes you bed ridden by taking out the energy of all the joints in body added with swelling on joints. What should a person do?
I took a call to go ahead with work commitment thinking the illness my family members have got is not breath taking (I am confident on my parents life I don’t know why I am so confident on the most uncertain fact of existence) and even if I am there next to them I cant take away their pain, of course I would have helped them a lot; but if I don’t travel now my customer satisfaction may get affected which will affect the relation built over last 4 years with continuous hard work from each team member. I still don’t know if I am right. Should I have stayed back and taken care of my mother when she needed me the most? When I ask this question to myself I think that would have been right. But now nothing can be done as I have already reached the destination.
I just pray to my parents that they forgive my yet another act of prioritizing work than personal life.