I don’t say this to sound harsh or mean, I say this because it’s a fact of life that you will lose your freedom unless you fight for it. I’m just so pissed off that more of my fellow humans don’t fight for that sort of thing, because if more of them did, the fight wouldn’t be so damn hard on me.

You’re right, it’s very cool that technology is enabling more and more people to work from home, the beach, a boat, or Europe, and specialized devices make work itself mobile (you don’t even need a table or a lap for a blackberry). Yet I don’t necessarily think that means a greater work/life balance for everyone. For you, definitely. You draw clear boundaries at work and fiercely defend your right to weekends. For a lot of people, decoupling work from the workplace will make it really hard to separate their time at work from their time away from work. It’s not always as easy as deciding that you’ve put in your eight hours and are now done. Owning a cell phone has already enabled my boss to call me late at night and on the weekends. People are getting addicted to blackberries. Children are begging parents to put away the blackberries so that they can have an uninterrupted dinner conversation.

I agree, it’s great that I can take more time than average off work if I check in on my laptop and do the things that need to be done daily. I am so thankful for that. But the other side of that is unless I’m somewhere where there isn’t an internet connection, I’m expected to ALWAYS check-in.