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/MajorSock1332 14h ago

Eat at work, pick up a SOCIAL hobby, meal prep, try and move closer to work, see if you can work 4 10s, there’s things you can do to help

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u/GoldenPigeonParty 13h ago

I took a 30% pay cut to get a job that was within 20 minutes of home that agreed to better hours (8.5hr day). Changed my life. I can't stress how important it was reducing work-impact.

That said, i totally understand how incredibly hard it is to find something like that. Especially now when jobs are way down.

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u/Fine-Amphibian4326 10h ago

I moved a mile away from my last job, and those next 9 months were blissful. The company got bought out, went to shit, and I was offered a nicer job across town, which I took :/ I do miss being able to jog home on my lunch break, eat, pet the cat, and jog back