My Work Life Balance

It's pretty popular these days to have one mobile device for emails, calendar, phone calls, etc. I am officially opposed to this.

Quite often people ask me why I carry two phones. My reply, as I hold one phone in each hand, is typically, "It's my work life balance." The truth is I didn't plan it, but one summer when I took a vacation and all I did was read my work emails that I wasn't supposed to be viewing, I knew I needed to make a change. My mobile phone is always with me and I receive personal and work phone calls on it. My Blackberry houses all my work email and I can put it down on weekends and nights when I need to be focusing on family or other activities. Or I can check it as often as I need to when traveling or waiting on important messages.

When I'm taking personal time, I always have my cell phone and can take any calls as necessary, but I don't have to stare at the work emails that I'm supposed to be taking a break from to recharge. So, maybe I have to endure all the condescending comments about having two phones, but I think I'm pretty smart to avoid consolidating.