Sentences with phrase «family over work»

Maternity leave top up programs help financially, and also build loyalty and improve retention, and we also offer accommodation programs for working parents so they don't need to be worrying about choosing family over work or vice versa.

Those who seek to balance both, or prioritize family over work, are just not working hard enough.

While CBS News reported that a 2015 Payscale survey found that more fathers than mothers claimed to prioritize family over work, the fact is that when a father says he prioritizes his kids over his job, people think, «What a good daddy!»

Through real estate I feel I'll be able to have the freedom to make my own path; choose what type of business model i see could work; education myself in the subjects that are actually important in life; and finally the ability to choose family over work as opposed to hoping to find time for family.

Not exact matches

I worked with the VC team at American Family Insurance and over time came to a realization that, in hindsight, is pretty obvious: Insurance is boring.

Finally, despite our incredible growth over a short period of time, Transportation Impact is a family, working together to be the best in the industry.

Have you passed over a better candidate just for the sake of working with a friend or family?

Siblings Chris Edwards, Mark Edwards and Dana Edwards Manatos worked for President Bush before taking over the family business in Pittsburgh.

Over the last 5 years, over 50 students from the city of St. Louis have worked diligently to fundraise over $ 100,000 to become the first in their families to travel internationaOver the last 5 years, over 50 students from the city of St. Louis have worked diligently to fundraise over $ 100,000 to become the first in their families to travel internationaover 50 students from the city of St. Louis have worked diligently to fundraise over $ 100,000 to become the first in their families to travel internationaover $ 100,000 to become the first in their families to travel internationally.

Ho, 40, is the scion of Hong Kong's first family of gambling but grew up in Canada, attended the University of Toronto and worked in investment banking before taking over the family business, Melco Group.

And while you might think you have nothing in common with Brian, think again: he took over the family business from his father (who took over from his father, the legendary Bill France, Sr.), needs to balance the needs of current customers while making smart changes to his product, must constantly work to build better relationships with partners, and must constantly revamp digital and social offerings and strategies to communicate with customers the way they want to engage.

A recent study published in the American Sociological Review clearly showed that, in a white collar environment, allowing workers some control over their own schedules, including being able to work from home, had a positive effect on employees» work - family balance without sacrificing productivity.

Federal Reserve data show that average family income at households headed by self - employed people declined 5.4 percent in real terms between 1989 and 2010, while average family income at households headed by people working for others rose 20.4 percent in inflation - adjusted terms over the same period.

In this column I've shared how much my experiment not flying has improved my life, which I say as someone with family all over and work that I used to think required flying.

«Instead of working to protect American families, President Trump's plans put the interest of big - money special interests over people,» said Nat Mund, legislative director of the Southern Environmental Law Center, a Virginia - based advocacy group.

All three of these things seem incredibly difficult to do at work, especially over time when close contact with the same people day in and day out makes your co-workers your surrogate family.

(«We are proud of our corporate culture and the good work that our employees do every day, bringing families across the country together over delicious, home - cooked meals,» the company told BuzzFeed at that time.)

Trust had a major impact on employee loyalty as well: Compared with employees at low - trust companies, 50 % more of those working at high - trust organizations planned to stay with their employer over the next year, and 88 % more said they would recommend their company to family and friends as a place to work.

Imagine their surprise when investors in a small business I once worked for received the company's internal loan repayment spreadsheet, showing that the business owner was pulling out bucks by paying his family exorbitant interest on loans while investor loans were repaid at rock - bottom rates over as long a time period as possible.

My family owned a store in a flea market selling clothes for over 25 years and I've worked there to help out since I was 11 years old.

Give employees some control over when and where they work, combined with managerial support for their work and family lives.

Over 56 % of the small business owners we spoke with work with one or more members of their family.

Our history of working with wealthy individuals and families over multiple generations has instilled us with deep insight into the complexities of wealth.

Wealthy families say a family office maintains a level of independence and gives them more control over their wealth, rather than working with a traditional wealth manager.

He has worked with family offices and capital raising for over 7 years and has provided consulting advice and services to over 1,600 firms during that time.

It works great and shows off the Echo family's superiority over Google Home in terms of how many more skills and services work with Alexa.

Since the devastation of Hurricane Maria, The Sato Project has evacuated over 300 dogs to safety and is working to keep families with their beloved pets, and to help the many animals left behind in the storm's aftermath.

I have been teaching for over a year now, and the teachers who work at my studio have become like a family to me.

Every day, hundreds of millions of low - income people go to work in hard jobs in foreign countries to make money to send back to their families in their home countries — over $ 400 billion in total annually, according to the World Bank.

If this deluded lunatic looks like he might even come close to winning the White House, I am packing up my family and moving to some more enlightened country until America works itself through the Dark Ages all over again.

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

The groundbreaking work that Daniel Patrick Moynihan did in 1965, on the black family, is an example — along with the critical research of psychologist Judith Wallerstein over several decades on the impact of divorce on children; Barbara Dafoe Whitehead's well - known work on the outcomes of single parenthood for children; Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur's seminal book, Growing Up with a Single Parent; and David Blankenhorn's Fatherless America, another lengthy summarization of the bad empirical news about family breakup.

Those who have followed the debate over same - sex marriage understand very clearly that law and culture ought to work together to promote and preserve families and communities; we should apply the same vigor to strengthening economic policies that make it easier for people not to sin.

Polygamist husbands in the FLDS & fundamentalist Mormon communities don't earn enough to support their wives and children: many husbands do not work at all, but merely preside over the family and conduct Church business.

These programs work most of the time, as I have seen as a marriage and family counselor for over 30 years.

You used to be a night owl but that has changed over the years in response to the demands of family life and work.

Huntington, for example, contends that «far more significant than the global issues of economics and demography are problems of moral decline», an «increase in antisocial behavior», decay of family structures, weakening of the «work ethic», and decreasing commitment to intellectual activity.12 Similarly Brzezinski refers to a current global crisis of spirit which has to be overcome if the human race is to regain some control over its destiny.

This is very far from being a new analysis: Family and Youth Concern, still battling away, was doing pioneering work over 30 years ago (for which its founder, Valerie Riches, was deservedly made a papal dame), pointing out how disastrous for society the undermining of the traditional family based on marriage - not least by successive governments - reallFamily and Youth Concern, still battling away, was doing pioneering work over 30 years ago (for which its founder, Valerie Riches, was deservedly made a papal dame), pointing out how disastrous for society the undermining of the traditional family based on marriage - not least by successive governments - reallfamily based on marriage - not least by successive governments - really was.

Or bringing food over to families where the father was out of work.

«Therefore the Church gives thanks for each and every woman: for mothers, for sisters, for wives; for women consecrated to God in virginity; for women dedicated to the many human beings who await the gratuitous love of another person; for women who watch over the human persons in the family, which is the fundamental sign of the human community; for women who work professionally, and who at times are burdened by a great social responsibility; for «perfect» women and for «weak» women - for all women as they have come forth from the heart of God in all the beauty and richness of their femininity; as they have been embraced by his eternal love; as, together with men, they are pilgrims on this earth, which is the temporal «homeland» of all people and is transformed sometimesinto a «valley of tears»; as they assume, together with men, a common responsibility for the destiny of humanity according to daily necessities and according to that definitive destiny which the human family has in God himself, in the bosom of the ineffable Trinity.»

I belive in God, his son and the holy ghost.I wake every morning and thank God for every thing that he has put in my path.weather it be good or bad I thank him.Ido the best I can every day.I have a lot to account for in my life, but I make no excucess or blame someone else for my many short comings.I ask him (God) to give me strengh so I can be a better person.doesn't always work he watches over my kids and grand kids, brothers, sister and there familys.

And so what better place to teach persons personally than in a congregation where you have access to everything that makes up their personhood — their families, their work, the weather, their neighborhood, their sins, their stories — and over a period of years, sometimes decades.

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

Relying on intelligence dossiers prepared meticulously by his UDR commanders, he prepared intensively, making several dry runs by following the bread delivery van in which Hackett would ultimately die; he blocked out the reality that the target might be a family man with a pregnant wife and child awaiting his return home from work; he avoided reading the papers or listening to TV reports over the next days, because the stories tend to make a real human being out of what had to be thought of only as «the target.»

In fact, the epiphany that came to me on the day over six years ago when I chose to quit drinking was that all my crying to God to help me quit wasn't going to work — because in that moment I was confronted by the awareness that I had to choose whether to quit or not, that there was no heavenly big daddy waiting in the wings to help me do so, that my choice to not drink would not change the fact that I have come from a family of alcoholics and other addictions that may have a genetic component.

The life of the contemporary bourgeoisie is a wearying frenzy of work, work, spending, and work, with some time left over for civic duties, commodified leisure, sex, family, and — maybe — a spiritual life.

I've also been freshly convicted about the importance of strengthening my relationships with schools, nonprofits, and community organizations here in East Tennessee, and am considering new ways to volunteer / contribute that will work for our family over the long haul.

Good food worked over for hours, family, community, happy people full of BBQ — this is human flourishing.

There's not much to say about me: I've known God for about 30 years, prayed and studied the Bible over the years, changed churches when I've moved away (left town for work / study), or if the church moved away (it happened twice — kinda like having your whole family run away from home!)

This unfortunate dualism continues to influence attitudes about what it means to be a man and a woman even though over half of the working women in the United States are working to support a family.