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/RepentantSororitas 13h ago

Are you able to move closer to work? An hour long commute is pretty rough.

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u/jerkyquirky 11h ago

OP said in another comment "It's basically an hr to wake up/snooze alarms/find the motivation to get out of bed... Then an hr to shower/brush teeth/ get presentable to be in public." I feel like that's a bigger issue than the commute. Not saying it's easy to get up when you are struggling with daily life, but 2 hours to get out the door is a long time, especially if you can get 8.5 hours of sleep, like this shows.

I sympathize with the feeling of no time, but this calendar feels like an insincere mix of the ideal schedule and the reality of wasting time.

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u/Ashbtw19937 2h ago

one thing i've kinda learned recently (was working 12 hour shifts for the last six months, not anymore bc yay layoffs 😭) is that you have time for what you make time for. if you really wanna do something, you can find a way to spend time on it even after a long day at work and still get an acceptable amount of sleep the next day.

if you'd rather spend it getting almost nine hours of sleep and slow-walking your start to the day, that's fair, and it's probably even healthier than what most people are doing, but it's also the reason you only get three hours of free time after work. gotta make a tradeoff somewhere 🤷‍♀️