The most important career decision you'll make is who your life partner is.
Framing the issue of work-life balance - as if the two were dramatically opposed - practically ensures work will lose out. Who would ever choose work over life?
So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.
There is no such thing as work-life balance. There is work, there is life, and there is no balance.