Work & Family: Essays from the ""Work & Family"" Column of the Wall Street Journal

On Wednesdays, more than 1.8 million Wall Street Journal readers can turn to Sue Shellenbarger's Work & Family column for advice, guidance, and insight into the most important social issue of our day: balancing career and personal life. Since creating the column in 1991, Shellenbarger has brought her unique wit and wisdom to the problems successful people encounter in managing child care, elder care, burnout, job sharing, marital stress, coping with emergencies, and corporate and personal trade-offs. Now Shellenbarger has collected the very best of her Work & Family essays in a single volume for all her readers.
Clearly organized by theme, Work & Family covers every aspect of the subject from starting a family in the midst of a flourishing career to dealing with workplace issues like job sharing, telecommuting, and family-unfriendly bosses. Filled with on-target advice while offering solid, unwavering support, Work & Family speaks directly to the needs of smart, ambitious, hardworking people. Having a life while succeeding at a demanding job has never been tougher: here is one book that helps us all meet and master the challenges of our complicated lives.