Design For Life

Advice column: ‘I’m seen as lazy, but I don’t want work to monopolise my time’

This week, career psychologist Sinéad Brady responds to a woman who is considered as lacking in ambition because she is content to work only the hours set out in her contract

The longest-running study on human behaviour has shown that the most common regret people have at the end of their life is sacrificing their personal lives to work harder and longer hours

Dear Expert,

I am a woman in my mid-30s from Dublin. I am a hard worker, but I like to enjoy my lunches, clock off on time, and keep well away from emails outside of work hours. I am not looking to climb the ladder and have no interest in being in a managerial position. For me, I work to live rather than live to work. I have no interest in staying late just to ...