| fatslob-:O said: You really gonna knock on source at first hand when it's backed by US labour stats ? The average american also spends less than half the time on work compared to those who are employed, go figure ... If you looked at "Average hours per day spent in selected activities on days worked by employment status and sex", i.e. the majority of the working age population (25-64) that make a living or those who are employed which are supposed to support their own family along with paying the senior population their pension has less than 25 hours each week of free time ... |
Yes, I'm going to knock the source, because however they interpret the data will be done with a propagandist slant.
That's the average working american's schedule, but keep in mind that most Americans either work overtime, or are horrible at time management. Simple math tells us how much freetime a well managed individual has...
168 hours in the week.
Minus 8 hours a day sleeping = 112 hours of awake time.
Minus 40 hours of working and 5 hours of commuting = 67 hours.
Minus 8 hours of exercise per week (which is more than most people get a month) = 59 hours.
Now we have 19 hours left for miscellaneous things like cooking, laundry, etc. Laundry shouldn't be more than tossing your dirty clothes in, taking them out, and hanging them up. Same goes for dishes, with a dishwashing machine. Even if you spent an hour cooking each day that's only 7 hours. Then there's eating which shouldn't be more than 7 hours a week too.
So 59 hours minus 7 to eat, and 7 to cook = 45 hours.
Now keep in mind that I said that anybody that can't find at least 30 hours of freetime in their week has a serious problem. So I'm still allowing for another 15 hours of random crap in the week. After all, I know people have kids, or life can often just throw you curveballs. Then remember that I dedicated a whole 8 hours to exercise which is excessive. Finally most people only need 7 hours of sleep a night once they get into their 40's and 50's. So I'm giving a crapton of leeway here and still coming out with plenty of ways to get 30 hours of freetime a week.
The simple fact of the matter is that if you don't have at least 30 hours of freetime a week you are a workaholic. Workaholics don't see relaxation and leisure as necessary components of life. Workaholics view anybody that does have that amount of freetime as lazy, and having an addiction of some sort, because it's the only way they can convince themselves that they're not slaves to the system.
