{"id":53,"date":"2026-09-20T06:58:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T06:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/work-life-balance-bali-style\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T06:58:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T06:58:19","slug":"work-life-balance-bali-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/work-life-balance-bali-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Work-life balance, Bali style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you reckon your work-life balance is a bit off, have a look at Bali. Seven day weeks, all the safety gear and tools you could want, paid holidays, and everyone downs tools together for lunch and a smoke. Sounds like paradise until you get to the average wage \u2014 about three hundred Aussie dollars. Makes you appreciate a normal Tuesday a bit more. Puts things in perspective when you&#8217;re moaning about a late start.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/relay-032adb1d-d551-4c5f-8d70-f881b4dc6800.jpg\" alt=\"Work-life balance, Bali style\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/relay-6a433347-50e9-457a-9202-49c944552bbb.jpg\" alt=\"Work-life balance, Bali style\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/relay-2c2fceb1-ce95-422e-a524-469b545b2c0e.jpg\" alt=\"Work-life balance, Bali style\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/relay-290b0436-e5ed-44fa-abfc-675fc1aa8898.jpg\" alt=\"Work-life balance, Bali style\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/relay-f3e09444-5bbe-4e54-ad62-3a39fba4f3df.jpg\" alt=\"Work-life balance, Bali style\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/relay-c027d73b-e7cb-4285-bbf8-0ce1c840370e.jpg\" alt=\"Work-life balance, Bali style\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you reckon your work-life balance is a bit off, have a look at Bali. Seven day weeks, all the safety gear and tools you could want, paid holidays, and everyone downs tools toget<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exploring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}