To what extent do you separate your work/personal life?

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Once I leave work I turn it off. My wife has a vague idea of what I do and knows the company I work for. My brother is my only family member who knows exactly what I do. Most of my friends/hunting buddies don't know what I do. It's not even that I do it on purpose, I just don't consider it to be an important part of my personality other than funding my BS hobbies.

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Basically the same for me.

I don't like thinking about work at work, much less at home.

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Once I leave work I turn it off. My wife has a vague idea of what I do and knows the company I work for. My brother is my only family member who knows exactly what I do.

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Assassin?

When I leave the office on Friday at 5, I completely forget what I do for a living. Every Monday on the drive back in, I have to reprogram my brain to remember what I was working on the previous week. It takes me 10-15 minutes when I get in to figure where I am on everything and get rolling for the week. I completely separate from work. I feel sorry for people who can't do that.

My job is also my hobby. So I'm usually messing around with a new exploit on my home lab after work for a bit so I know what to look for at work.

Boss kind of frowns when I fire up Kali on the prod network.

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Is your job a big part of your personality?

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No

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Are you able to put it out of your mind when you go home?

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Absolutely

I know it's cliché, but I work to live, I don't live to work.

Some people in my life have a vague idea of what I do, but I really don't even like when people ask what I do because I try to explain it and most of them still don't understand.

I couldn't be one of those people who have lives that revolve around their work. I very rarely talk about work when I'm not there. My wife on the other hand, is friends with a lot of people in her field and discusses her work with them constantly. She's also probably way better at her job than I am at mine because of it

My work life and personal life are very separate (on purpose).

I would recommend this strategy to anyone else who can make it happen.

Decisions I made at work didn't bleed into my family life.

My personal friends know what I do for a living but there's never any interaction from a business standpoint with them.

Which is good, "one less thing" as Forrest said.

Probably a medium for me.

I do things outside of working hours because it allows me a whole lot more freedom during work hours. If taking care of a task or two from the sofa while I'm watching TV at night allows me to wrap up my day at 3pm the next day and hit up happy hour, I personally feel it is well worth it.

If you work for someone that expects you to be chained to your desk chair until 5:00 every day no matter what, I definitely understand checking out when you're not there as there is no reward or incentive.