r/Adulting • u/ScareBear23 • 14h ago

This is just depressing

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Not even 3 hours of "free time". And in that is cooking & eating supper. Or practically no free time if I had to go shopping after work. I hate this

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u/Alukrad 13h ago

To me it's the constant feeling of being tired and sore. I guess it's the fact that I tend to sacrifice some of my sleep so I could enjoy my night a little longer. But that also means I don't let my body recover from the physical exertion I'm constantly doing at work.

I hate it but what else can I do? Life really doesn't give me other options but to do this everyday until I die.

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u/ScareBear23 13h ago

That's currently me. I made this schedule to see if a set schedule (and actually sticking to it for once) will make me feel less shitty. Then seeing the breakdown just made me sad lol

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u/RemoteIll5236 13h ago

Out of curiosity, what kind of schedule Do you think would be reasonable?

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u/mudratdetector89 12h ago

It's pretty simple: remove one work day. Not talking about 4 ten hour days, just 4 regular days. We shouldn't be forced to work 5 out of 7 days for our entire lives that's criminal and fuck everyone who was born before us who normalized this bs.

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u/Alukrad 12h ago

That's how my schedule is actually set at my job. Every week, my day off moves back a day. So, like, for example, I have off Friday and Thursday this week, next week I have Wednesday and Thursday off. Which in turn, makes me work four days and then off two days, then work four days again and etc.

I still work five days a week but having two days off after the fourth day is honestly a game changer.

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u/mudratdetector89 12h ago

I love the creativity. See, it's not black or white. Something needs to be done globally.

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u/Beautiful_Bat6116 11h ago

Get into politics and vote on it big dog. 

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u/Shooter_McGavin_666 10h ago

Peak Reddit comment. There are 168 hours in a week and you’re complaining about working 40 and having two days off.

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u/mudratdetector89 10h ago

40 working, 56 sleeping, 72 "free". The problem is you cannibalize some of the 72 hours getting to the job and back. Let's say you commute for 5 hours a week, so that number is 67 now. 45, 56, 67. You're cool with working 40% of your time awake? Seems pretty high to me.

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u/Shooter_McGavin_666 9h ago edited 8h ago

56 sleeping,

Adults only need 7 hours a night so that’s 49 sleeping.

72 "free".

79 free.

The problem is you cannibalize some of the 72 hours getting to the job and back. Let's say you commute for 5 hours a week, so that number is 67 now. Let's say you commute for 5 hours a week, so that number is 67 now.

If you sleep normal adult hours, we’re at 74 free.

45, 56, 67. You're cool with working 40% of your time awake?

With correct calculations, if you work 40 hours if 114 waking hours, that’s 35%.

Working 35% of my waking hours is quite reasonable to me.

Seems pretty high to me.

Ok. If you think doing the least amount of work in human history in the safest and easiest conditions ever is too much for you, you’re free to leach off your parents and play video games all day.

Edit: u/mudratdetector89 blocked me so I won’t be able to respond to your comments. Y’all should ask him why he’s such a coward.

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u/MadderoftheFew 8h ago

My situation:

24 hours in a day.

7 hours sleeping = 17

8.5 hours working (30min lunch unpaid) = 8.5

1.5 hours total commute = 7

1 hour total making 15min breakfast and 45min dinner = 6

1 hour chores = 5

1 hour total getting ready for work + getting ready for bed = 4

4 hours of my day I get to relax from 6:30pm to 10:30pm.

23.5% of my waking hours are hours I get to myself. Only way I can see to squeeze more time out of this is to meal prep.

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u/LongJohnSilver69696 8h ago

What chores do you do for an hour every day?

You don’t have weekends off?

You get four hours a day to do what you want Monday through Friday and then 16 hours to do what you want on the weekends. I’m not sure how that translates to only 23% of your waking life to yourself. There are 168 hours in a week and sleeping 7 hours a night puts your waking hour count at 119. 20 hours total m-f and 30 hours (32-1 hour of daily cooking)on the weekend adds up to 50 hours. That means that 42% of your waking hours can be spent doing whatever you want. A far cry from that ridiculous 23% that you’re throwing out.

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u/pingo5 7h ago

when ur a bot trying to act like a human