Episode 101: Your Work, Your Private Life
/“I’ve always been quite guarded with revealing details about my personal life as I wouldn’t really want that information to be out there, out of my control.”
“I don’t want to go out of my way to play mental games and think, how can I do my part to make sure this person is comfortable by my constructing a false reality?”
dorie clark
The boundaries between work and home are fraying all the time. We spend work time doing personal stuff, and time at home working. We talk about our personal lives at work too, and vice versa. But some of us aren't comfortable sharing much about our home lives with colleagues - we like our boundaries. Yet not sharing can put us at odds with a world where everyone's connected on social media. My first guest Marie guards her privacy, but wonders if she's hurting her career by being circumspect. My second guest, Dorie Clark, has similar experiences, but a different take on openness at work.
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I want to hear from you after you've heard this one - as she says in the show, Marie is keen to get other people's takes on her situation. Please post below if you have any experiences to share.
Further reading:
Human Rights Watch issued a report last year on LGBT rights in Kazakhstan.
Here's a BBC report on the latest poll on Nigerian attitudes to same-sex relationships.
And here's more information and a photo of that sign at the airport in Accra, Ghana.