发展过程中实现工作与生活的平衡，尽早“全力以赴”或许是最明智的选择。你可以获得宝贵的经验和人脉，这些收获将给你的职业发展带来好处。
普华永道等公司的研究显示，80后和90后比他们的前辈更加重视工作与生活的平衡。一方面，许多初入职场的千禧一代会发现有些同龄人在工作中总是非常悠闲，即使混日子，依旧能领到工资。他们或许认为
me the respect of my manager and colleagues. I got to be a part of strategic conversations that allowed me to understand the bigger picture and play ever-bigger roles.
This idea might seem counterintuitive if you are stuck in short-term thinking, but if you really want work/life balance over a career, going all in as much as possible
（你可能也会同意）自己比这个体系更聪明。early may be the smartest thing you can 但这样做其实会让他们错失为职业生涯奠定基础的关键时间段。
虽然关于工作与生活平衡的决定很重要，而且人与人之间存在巨大差异，但从长远来看，尽量做最少工作的心态或许并不明智。心理学家梅格?杰伊在其非常有启发性的TED演讲《20岁光阴不再来》中，给所有二十多岁的年轻人敲响了警钟。所谓20岁到30岁是“可以挥霍的十年”这种观念，已经成为一种极其危险的谬论。太多虚度这段光阴的80后和90后将来肯定会后悔不迭的。 就如今天投资100元产生的价值要远远高于10年后投资100元一样，随着时间的推移，出色的工作、职业关系和学习经验会产生“利滚利”效应。你投入的时间、精力和专注同样如此。早些起步能让你获得管理团队的权力，让你在不得不提前离开公司去接孩子放学时，可以将任务交给下属。（财富中文网）
译者：刘进龙/汪皓 审校：任文科
Though decisions regarding work/life balance are important and vary widely from person to person, it may not be wise in the long run to optimize for doing the bare minimum at work. In her insightful TED talk, ―Why 30 is not the new 20,‖ psychologist Meg Jaygives an important Research from PwC and others suggest that millennials — more than previous generations — value work/life balance. On one end of the spectrum, many millennials new to the workforce will find peers have figured out ways to cruise through their jobs, doing the bare minimum and still collecting their paychecks. They may think (and you may be tempted to agree) they have outsmarted the system. But actually they are the ones losing out on crucial foundational years.
do. You will obtain valuable experience and contacts that will pay dividends throughout your career.
wake-up call to twenty-somethings. The notion that your 20s are a ―throwaway decade‖ has become a dangerous fallacy that too many millennials may come to regret later in their careers.
Great work, professional relationships, and learning experiences compound over time, much the way money does — investing $100 today creates much more value than investing $100 a decade from now. The same rings true for your time, energy, and focus. Starting early lets you earn the right to manage a team and have people to delegate to when you have to leave work early to pick up your kid from school.