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The chief executive of one of the world’s largest health care companies says if you’re obsessing over your work-life balance, the issue isn’t the hours you’re working, your long commute, or even your finish time. It’s the job.

"When the balance of your life becomes a topic, then you have a problem," Iñaki Ereño, CEO of Bupa, recently told me. "You need to like your job, to not feel that your life needs to be balanced."

In his eyes, needing to separate work from life with a hard 5 p.m. cutoff doesn’t make sense when you genuinely love what you do. So if you’re constantly counting down the hours to the end of the day, it’s probably a sign that something fundamentally isn’t clicking.

Ereño says he loves running the £16.9-billion-a-year ($23 billion) Fortune 500 Europe company so much that he thinks about it even while at the gym lifting weights with his 23-year-old son. And it doesn’t stop there.

“I enjoy thinking about business things on the weekends,” the 61-year-old admitted. “I do emails, and I read my papers and all of that. Do I feel that that is a big pressure? No… I enjoy doing that. So I don’t feel I need to think about how I balance my life.”

And he’s not alone: Scale AI billionaire Lucy Guo, who wakes at 5:30 a.m. and works until midnight, puts it plainly: "If you feel the need for work-life balance, maybe you’re not in the right work." LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman goes further, saying workers who chase balance are "not committed to winning." Even Barack Obama admitted he went a year and a half without proper weekends when he was running for president. "If you want to be excellent at anything, there’s going to be times of your life when you’re out of balance," he said.

Ereño’s advice for anyone who lives for the weekend? “I think the advice here is to take some time to think about what you like doing,” he added. “Don’t do a job that you don’t like, so then you need balance.”

In other words, start asking yourself why you’re craving work-life balance—and consider that it might be time to change not just your schedule, but your career.

—Orianna Rosa Royle
Success Associate Editor, Fortune

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