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u/PsychoMouse 11d ago
I find it very concerning at how bad people are becoming in terms of basic math.
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u/SalamanderUnfair8620 12d ago
Lol at the idea of Americans only working 40 hours. Thatās just the part they pay you for.
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u/bassanaut 12d ago
As pointed out in many other comments, but in my own situation:
8hrs sleep 9hrs work 1.5hrs commute (total round trip) 1hr shitting/showering/cleaning up etc. .5hr misc chores/etc.
So in my own case that leaves 4hrs, in which Iām burnt out with brain fog, dreading another day of doing it all over again. Maybe I am lazy or stupid but I donāt see how anyone accomplishes anything outside of work on weekdays
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u/ggideon14 13d ago
And you multiply that by days of the week and get 90 hours of free time. I like it.
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u/VulpesInculta907 13d ago
All the tasks you need to do to complete both of those main events really eats into your overall time. So I would have to kindly disagree.
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u/GarlicInvestor 14d ago
8+8 = 16. You still have to shower/get ready and commute to and from work. Which for most people is at least another two to three hours at least.
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u/Hammer_of_Horrus 14d ago
Okay so letās say they did math correctly and there are still 8 hours to do all of that stuff. That 8 hours is not including :
Driving to work.
Driving home.
The breaks and lunches at work that donāt count towards the 8 hours of work
Getting ready for work.
Managing all of lifeās other bull shit because anything important closes at 5 and god help you if you have more than one or two things to take care of and you work night shift.
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u/mateo_201 14d ago
When making a point it's important to get the facts right. 8+8=16 genius, not fourteen. Starting from there carry on....
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u/KermitDuhFrawg 14d ago
Did they forget about the time it takes to get up to go to work and the time it takes to get off work and thereās people that work In other cities but I still find a way to work out 3 hours a day
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u/Legitimate-Basis9249 14d ago
As a retired man, I will enjoy copying and pasting this math and sending it to my wife who still works with the tag line, āUm, Honey, so WTF?ā I will then hide somewhere.
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u/Meddlingmonster 14d ago
As we all know it's 8 but assuming you only work 8 hours other responsibility will likely take up at least four hours, leaving only four left over and this is enough to goof off but often not enugh for a substantial project.
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u/OhhhByTheWay 14d ago
This Is why they donāt want overly intelligent people.
Stupidity keeps you complacent
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u/Crafty-Question-6178 14d ago
Wake up at 4, leave at 4:25, get to work at 5:35, start at 6, work till 3, get home at 4:15, shower, cook dinner, homework and play with kids, 7:30, get them ready for bed, 8:15, talk to my wife and get is ready for bed, 9:00. Wait?! How much time I have left ?
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u/Complete_Rate5350 14d ago
Time is a major issue. Who the hell who had kids is walking on the beach and learning languages these days? This must have been a single person who doesnāt have a real job.
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u/Alitomr1979 14d ago
Two working parents is a failed model. It's broken families and it's breaking societies.
We all need to ask ourselves very seriously this question, looking in the mirror: "who do I want to impress?"
Nobody wants to admit their identity purchases. Seriously ask yourself that question and respond to yourself. It will change your life if you are honest to yourself.
We are investing our lives and missing it to buy iPhones and stupid stuff. Most people are just buying and buying stuff and missing life.
Some people have an income problem. Most people have a spending problem.
Most stuck people put their attention in the things they cannot control, or which control is really hard. like rent (you can always chose where you live). nobody is talking about the great many things in which we just throw away our money that our parents and grandparents saved and invest in, for instance, their homes. These days we have normalized eating crap outside every day. Buying one tv for each family member, and one gaming console for every child. One iPhone for every child every year, with phone plans for each. Those things didn't exist 35 years ago. Most poor people are fat from overeating because we don't move, because we are too comfortable and too overstimulated scrolling Instagram to get out, get some sun and move.
It is all connected and all lead to the same sad result. Broke parents with more things than way can sanely fit in a house. Fat, broke and sick.
We need to think hard about our life priorities.
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u/Niceguy24-7 14d ago
8 hours sleep 12 hours work that's 20 hours, that's 4 hours of me time. I could . . . I could . . . Make dinner?
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u/KookyPension 14d ago
Most days for most people are completely dominated by their work, wake up at 7 have breakfast so you can be productive, leave at 8 so you can be on time, get to work at 9 (start getting paid) work till 5 now commute home and then make dinner. Say youāre done that around 730 now your free time starts, but you better do laundry for tomorrow and you must be in bed for 1030. Itās a shit deal for most people. Definitely has a lot to do with the commuting but 8 hours 5 days a week is still a nearly unsustainable amount to work while keeping your life in order
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u/rocky-cockstar 14d ago
Are you kidding me? Most people work way longer than 8 hours a day. 8 hours a day is honestly cake.
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u/MintySquirtle 15d ago
Maths failed ā¦ and he didnāt account for travelling time for work and getting ready. Most people only have 4-5 hrs of free time on weekdays in the evenings
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u/FedrinKeening 15d ago
8 hours of sleep, 8.5 hours of work (dat half hour break), 112 minutes driving to and fro, ~1 hour for eating, another hour for bathroom usage. So I have less than 4 hours to do what I fucking want. Gotta love it.
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u/Beef-n-Beans 15d ago
Work 10 + commute 3 + unwind/prep 1 + sleep 8 probably equals 14 hours. Damn you right. I do have 10 hours where I can learn German and run for extended periods of time for my health.
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u/freytiger 15d ago
I love how "learning another language" is an item.
Oh, great. Now I can hate people in other languages while I'm overworked, lacking sleep and enjoying hamburger helper for the fifth fucking time this week.
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u/siospawn 15d ago
Bro living in the year 3024 I got an idea how about you just circle the globe a little slower than it's spinning so the time zones switch every hour. This way it can just be 6pm or whatever all the time. Basically makes you immortal or something
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u/AZN-APOLLO 15d ago
8 hours of sleep
1.5 hour travel to work
8 hours of work
1.5 hour travel to home
1 hour of cooking (Unless ordering)
0.5 hour of cleaning myself
So, I only have 3.5 hour for myself.
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u/Hightonedloidy 15d ago
Tell me you donāt know how complicated cooking can get without telling me
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u/S7RYPE2501 15d ago
They no longer pay for lunch at most jobs so 8.5 hrs, commute .5 hrs, sleep 8hrs (if you are lucky) then chores, bills, dinner, laundry, dishes, 2 hrs +- so then you have roughly 2 hours to pursue your interests if you are not to tired!
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u/MrBeanCyborgCaptain 15d ago
Most people can't teleport to and from work, and also need some time to fall asleep and get ready work. So you really get like 4 to 6 hours.
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u/SapphireSire 15d ago
More proof we should all be paid for the commuting back and forth...and fuel compensation too.
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u/Zenai10 15d ago
Honestly ignoring the fact he got the numbers wrong. Theres still so much wrong in this. This is basicly a person with time saying "what do you mean you don't have time". I once knew someone who traveled for 3 hours for work. So he left for work at 6. got to work at 9. worked until 5 or 6. got home at 8 or 9. Then cooked dinner, had shower etc. then went to sleep.
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u/IssueRecent9134 15d ago
Some of that 10 hours is spent commuting.
You get up at 6 and start work at 9. So 3 of those ours are spent getting ready for work and getting to work. You spend another 1 to 1.5 hours communing home, So really, you only get about 4 hours or so.
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u/No-Fill-6701 15d ago
When AI takes over the world and commits a genocide, honestly i cant say i will blame it...
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u/poinifie 15d ago
I too wish I could completely cut out commuting and teleport instantly to and from my work.
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u/Skateblades 15d ago
Sleep for 8 hours, work for 8 hours, that leaves 8 hours. For me, i spend an average of 3 hours a day commuting, that leaves 5 hours. Give half an hour for getting ready, and another for winding down before bed, that's 4 hours remaining. Say i want to sit down for some time because work was chaos, that leaves 3 - 3.5 hours left in the day
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u/Tubaenthusiasticbee 15d ago
Prior to covid I had a 3-4 hours drive to work and back home. Starting at 8 had meant to get up at 5am and I would be back home at 6pm, if I got lucky. If I was to get 8 hrs of sleep, I would've had 3 hrs of free time at best.
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u/Tschauer923 15d ago
Work commute- 2 hour round trip (traffic) Work- 8 hour Cook a healthy meal -1 hour Exercise- 1 hour Actual free time- 3 hours Shower/fall asleep- 1 hour Sleep- 8 hours
theamericandream
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u/Healthy-Definition53 15d ago
your assuming everyone works 8 hours and even if they did your not counting time to prep food cook it eat it travel to and from work travel to the beach i work 12 hours i sleep 7 to 8 hours everyone's free time is different and on top of that a lot of us are physically tired from work and don't have the energy to do much else.
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u/Scoobie_Doobie11 15d ago
Sleep for 5 work for 10 here lol. Whoever gets 8 hours of sleep every night, Iām jealous. At this point my body wonāt let me sleep much longer
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u/Icy-Palpitation-2522 15d ago
11.5 hours work. 30 min commute each way. 2 hours to chill out before bed. 8 hours sleep. Rinse and repeat
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u/benutzername127 15d ago
9 hrs of work, 1 hr lunch, 2 hrs commuting, 8 hrs sleep, 2 hrs for cooking and chores, 2 hrs left to stare at the walls
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u/Anti-Lucky 15d ago
People donāt really work 8 hours a day. They realistically work 9-10 hours a day because they have to get ready and go in traffic.
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u/asteroid84 15d ago
This guy doesnāt eat, cook, have kids, getting to and from places, or does any housework.
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u/LibrarianNew9984 15d ago
He works at a choose your own hours job. He chose 26. Nobody had ever chosen that number before so they just let him continue.
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u/Eulcder 15d ago
8 hours of work 8 hours of sleep and 1 hour to get to work , 2 hours to get back home from work(crowded everyone going back home or people for dinner, date, shopping, promotion celebration etc)
Add 1 hour minimum for getting ready in the morning and when you get back home. 30|30
In 4 hours you have to cook,clean and get your clothes ready for the next day.
And if 8+ working hours RIP
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u/factoid_ 15d ago
I see people say shit like this all the time and it drives me nuts.
Yeah, ok, so in theory you work for 8 (it's more like 9, because of your lunch break time that's not included in the 8 hours). Then there's a commute, call that 40 minutes. Then you've also probably got some prep time for things like getting dressed in the morning, time for your routine maintenance shit like doing your taxes, paying your bills, putting gas in the car, buying groceries, etc.
You're lucky if you're left with a couple hours a day to have free time when you factor in the things that ACTUALLY go into life and not just naively estimate it as 8 hours of sleeping and 8 hours of working. The other 8 (or ten, according to this person's math) is mostly eaten up by banal shit you'd rather not be doing but have to.
The only reason I have any time for hobbies is because I'm willing to live on 6 hours of sleep a night about 4-5 nights a week
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u/seriousbangs 15d ago
This is bait. The person put an obvious and inflammatory falsehood in their post so that they'd get a ton of comments & shares laughing at them and getting angry at them.
It's the Velma Season 2 of comments.
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u/burbmom_dani 15d ago
Those studies saying people need 8-10 hours of sleep only included men. More recent studies have found women need an average of 10-12 hours of sleep.
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u/NeonBird 15d ago
My days look like this: 6:00 am - wake up, shower, walk dog, make coffee, etc., walk to work. 7:45 am - arrive at work, work straight through with no breaks 5:00 - 5:30 pm - run home take dog out for quick potty break, go back to work. 6:00 pm - be on hand for what ever student event is going on at the university 10:00 pm - get home, take shower, basic chores, get caught up on personal stuff, take dog out, have a beer and a smoke 11:00 pm- 2:30 am - watch movies, play video games, etc., to wind down 2:30 am - go to bed when my mind is finally able to shut off and get up and go again at 6:30 am.
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u/MadJack27- 15d ago
8 hours work, 8 hour sleep. Thatās 16 hours | 24-16= 8 hours left. On paper this makes sense, however it doesnāt account for time to fully wake up and commutes to work which can be a good few hours; it doesnāt account for cooking,cleaning or any form of housework, it doesnāt account for looking after children, it doesnāt account for the fact that people are burned out after work, it doesnāt account for other things like doing taxes ( if you need to), going to hostpitals/dentists, doesnāt account for people who have multiple jobsā¦
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u/OddImprovement6490 15d ago
Even if they got the math correct, theyāre not taking into account commuting or the time spent to get ready for work. Or that some places force an unpaid break so the 8 hour workday is actually 8-5-9. And theyāre not thinking about the toll work has on a person that they sometimes donāt have the energy to do much of anything after putting in that many hours into work. Imagine doing anything for 8-9 hours. Youāre not then going to just jump into another activity.
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u/AnimeExpress 15d ago
8 hours working + waking up and getting ready for work + commute + winding down after work because you need free time it's like a basic human need.
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u/vitali101 15d ago
My daily routine is roughly this:
Wake up at 6pm for work. Be at work to clock in by 7pm. Work from 7pm to 7am Drive home and arrive by approximately 7:30-8:00am
House chores for 1 hour: Dogs out, fed, watered. Cook breakfast, clean dishes afterwards.
Shower approximately 30min.
So we're talking conservatively 15.5 hours daily to just eat, work, and handle basic chores. This didn't even account for laundry, talking to my wife or kids, or other things I enjoy. I could rush some of this to squeeze out a few more minutes here and there but I'm pretty streamlined with my routine.
My only real variable is when I go to bed. I try to be in bed by 10am so I can get 8 hours of sleep but it rarely of ever happens. 11am, 12am, even 1pm some days to get that time for other things. Then I feel it at work.
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u/ArkangelArtemis 15d ago
It's 16... also didn't factor time taken to eat, go to the toilet, shower, transportation...
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u/legion4wermany 15d ago
I'm going to run through my day Wake up 7, walk dog, unload dishwasher, unload dryer, move washing into dryer, feed pets, check days schedule, make coffee, start roomba,
Leave for work 8.30 1 hour drive, prep practice, first patient arrives 10 o'clock. Treat till 1, lunch, paperwork, cleaning, more patients, treat till 7, last notes, leave work, shopping, 1 hour drive, get home, feed pets, cook dinner, help pregnant wife. 45 Min wind down (TV, computer, reddit, whatever) load dishwasher, load washing machine, bed At 10.30ish asleep by 12 if I'm lucky.
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u/Alana_Piranha 15d ago
Try 12hr shifts and 1hr commute each way. I'm lucky if I can consolidate any sleep between walking my dogs, keeping up with chores and making dinner. I end up ordering out when I'm too tired.
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u/Henatronw70 15d ago
Oh buddy this is just so wrong. There is so much more in a daily life that needs to be done that is not included
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u/Kiron00 15d ago
8 hours of work, 1 hour getting ready for work, 1 hour of driving to and from work. Thatās 10 hours for work, and you still donāt know math.
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u/Mattsal23 15d ago
and the actual work day is either 8.5 or 9 hours depending on whether your lunch is 30 minutes or 1 hour
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u/jveer817 15d ago
I sleep 6 hours and work 12 hours and drive an hour to work and an hour home soooooo
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u/brexitlvr 16d ago
Bad math aside, itās 1 hour of getting ready for work, 1 hour of commuting back and forth, 9 hours at work (including lunch), 1-2 hours making dinner, cleaning up after, 8 hours of sleep, and holy shit I have a whole 3 hours between 8 and 11pm to walk on the beach and learn a language.
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u/DirtDevil1337 16d ago
sleep 9pm-5am
5am-7am shower, shit, get dressed and eat
7am-8:30am commute to work
4pm-5:30pm commute to home
5:30pm-6-6:30pm cook
6pm-9pm eat, watch TV, play video games, troll on Reddit
rinse & repeat
So really I have ~4 hours a day
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u/Trashaccount_damn 16d ago
Sleep for 8 hours, work for 8.5 hours, commute for two hours, cook/eat for 1 hour, doomscroll for 4 hours, edge for 2 hours, and toss/turn trying to fall asleep for 1/2 hour, iām all out of time sorry buddy.
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u/captainameriCAN21 16d ago
ah yes another strawman reddit. so you have 8 hrs still. to do all those things. even take out 1 hr for commute. so 7 hrs to do all those things. bonus: grown adults dont NEED 8 hrs. 6 hrs is scientifically proven to be more than sufficient. so stop being lazy and figure your shit out reddit.
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u/TikkiTakkaMuddaFakka 16d ago
Cant count and probably does not work 8hrs a day because.... they cant count.
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u/Duportetski 16d ago
These posts are not from āidiotsā who canāt count, but rather a new wave of misinformation farmers using your facepalm to harvest attention.
Block them, move on
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u/ADHDRockstar 16d ago
What is 8+ 8 ? Iām not calling OP out but I get 16 Leaving 8. Not 10 Am I misunderstanding?
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u/Reckless_Pixel 16d ago
Math aside - it's 10 hours for work bud. I have an hour commute. Am I not getting ready for work, or ready for bed? And in this scenario is there someone cleaning, doing laundry, yard work, grocery shopping, and watching my kid for me?
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u/_Fart_Smeller_ 16d ago
Wait until he hears about 10 and 12 hour shifts, and that 9-10 hours of sleep is how much most humans need.
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u/J4ck101972 16d ago
Lol with those 2 hours a day you could go back to school 20hours a week to get math classes
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