It's human nature to overlay our own values and beliefs on other people's decisions -- particularly when the decision is to accept one of the most challenging and demanding jobs in the world. So you see this young mother with five kids who is given the career opportunity of a lifetime and you image it's you being asked to become vice president of the United States. You wonder, "Given the same circumstances, would you say yes to that offer?" While some would say, "Hell yes!" Many others would say, " Not a chance."

So many sit in their day jobs and wish they could freelance so they could have more freedom, more free time, and control over their lives. Then once they strike out on their own they find themselves working 24/7 and tethered to every digital gadget imaginable and the dream of work life balance and freedom go out the window in the pursuit of gigs and income.

If a term is not in Wikipedia does that term really exist? Work life integration has not found its way to Wikipedia just quite yet. But, in writing about newly released report on the future of work life in Great Britain, John Carvel, social affairs editor for The Guardian writes,

Technically, I don't really commute-unless you consider walking across the hall with laptop in hand and plugging it into its docking station. It's not as though I've never commuted -- I just haven't done it for the past 10 years. The past few days in L.A. have made up for my decade of decadent non-commuting.