SEE YOU IN AUGUST!

Dear Readers,
Thank you for your interest in my blog, Stefan's Sidebar!
Over the past few months my aim has been to update the blog weekly with issues of great interest to me and hopefully to you as well.  I appreciate readers' comments and welcome other perspectives.
Also, please don't hesitate to suggest topics for this blog.
During the coming few weeks, however, I will be on summer vacation, far away from blogs, computers, cell phones...and civilization!
I will return in August. I hope you will as well!

TIME FOR FIKA!

We have varied perspectives when we think about work in different parts of the world.  In general, it is my experience that in the US, work, career and to make a dollar are all more important than having time to for relaxation and personal development. In Europe we manage the balance between work and family differently, that is by focusing more on the family rather than on work. Either way you create wealth. The American way of working and living is more focused on the bottom line perhaps, whereas the European way is more philanthropic.