I've always wanted a lifestyle job.

For me, it works better than seeking a work/life balance.

A lifestyle job has:

• stimulating tasks

• fabulous work location

• great working relationships

• inputs that enhance my life

• access to ideas and challenges

• an energising work environment

• services around me that I can use

• flexibility to meet my personal needs

• ability to connect with my family as much as possible

Might not be everybody's lifestyle, but it's a lifestyle that suits me.

I've got a lifestyle job now.

Those who don't have a lifestyle job, hanker for a lifestyle business. They think they want to be:

• a cozy cafe owner,

• an exotic tour guide,

• a mobile content creator going from beach to beach .....

The reality rarely translates to a lifestyle business.

I remember when I was in my 12th year of teaching and the turbulence of the profession motivated me to just want to mindlessly wash dishes in a cafe - surely that was less exhausting.

I bought a cafe and the glamour of that enterprise expired within 6 months. It didn't create the lifestyle I was after.

My current lifestyle job does.