Take Time Off Work Without Feeling Guilty

Many people feel  guilty about taking a day off work. What is worse, is many feel frightened about doing so in case they are seen as a skiver and risking their job. 

According to Unlimited Results financial empowerment coach Orsolya Bartalis, there is a financial and emotional impact to taking a day off.

"It’s not a nice feeling," she said. "I am a mother and there are times when being a mum has to come first over anything else. It’s not easy though.  

"I would find myself choosing between taking care of them when they were a little sick or leaving them so I could earn the money for their next school trip or their Christmas presents."

No one should feel like this.

"We live in an age of technology. Technology that was supposed to leave us all working less and yet, somehow, most of us are actually working more. It’s clear that technology isn’t what it was promised or that society hasn’t, yet, worked out how to use technology to benefit people rather than corporations," Orsolya said.

She said the fear of taking a day off comes from financial insecurity most of all. 

"If you need your job to keep a roof over your head and your children’s heads; you can’t afford to take a risk even when your children really need you to be there for them. If you have to have an income coming in to be sure of being able to put food on the table, you’re going into the office come hell or high water. Even if it makes you sick," she said.

"It’s unlikely that your employer is suddenly going to become perfectly family friendly or that they’re going to buy a robot to cover for you when you take time off. You can’t put the problem in their hands because they have other priorities.

"I used to work in HR. “People are our most valuable asset” comes with an unspoken codicil “as long as they are chained to their desks making us money”.

If you want to be able to take a day off when you are sick, then it is time to take responsibility for making the change. 

"That means developing financial freedom," Orsolya said.

"Financial freedom is when you have money invested so that it creates an income for you no matter what you do. The ultimate financial freedom is when you can stop work and watch the money come in as it always did but you don’t have to get far on your journey to financial freedom when you become better equipped to weather the occasional minor financial storm.

"If you are tired of leaving your children’s care to others, if you are sad from being forced to work when you are ill, if you’d just like more time off and to work decent hours – you need to become financially free.

Orsolya has created an Abundant Mind Toolkit to take the first steps to people of the tyranny of office presenteeism - http://bit.ly/2kigqHm

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