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The reality is we spend most of our waking lives at work.

Bloody hell, that sounds so depressing when you put it like that...

Really? I sleep about 8 hours a day, and work 8-10 hours a day. That's 6-8 hours of being awake and not working, plus 2x16 hours of not working on the weekend.

So worst case scenario, in a week, I spend 50 hours at work and 62 hours being awake and not working. If your numbers are not in that ballpark, you probably want to re-evaluate whether all the hours you spend at work are optimal :)

But those hours "being awake" include eating, showering, doing house chores, etc. In reality it's 10 hours work (including commute) vs 3-4 hrs non-work, and ~10 on the weekend. So the usual number is 50:40 at best, not 50:62.

You don't even need to do the math, we've all been there: get up, go to work, come back at 7-8pm, have dinner, 2hrs to do something then sleep.

Even more sad if you live in a northern climate. You get go to work in the dark, and return in the dark. Daylight is just something that happens during work.

I live in Sweden. When I was an employee I didn't get any sun on me during a significant chunk of the year.

I run my own business these days.

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