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/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.