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[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah.

There are 168 hours in a week.

I sleep about 7.5 hours, but am usually in bed for 8 hours. Let's just call that 56 hours.

I work about 45 hours per week. My commute takes me about 15 minutes each way, so that's a minimum of 2.5 hours per week of biking (this also serves as light cardio). More realistically, I do about half the pickups and dropoffs for my school age kids, so each one of those adds about 45 minutes, so that's another 3.75 hours. That's a total of 50.25 hours on work stuff.

I sneak in about 3 or 4 workouts per week during my lunch break, adding about an hour to each workday that I do that. On days I don't work out, I might run errands or eat lunch with friends. So let's just call that 5.

Let's add 7 hours to our morning routines, where I generally have to wake up an hour before actually leaving the home. And another 7 hours for my kids bedtime routines.

That leaves just under 43 hours per week of everything else. I'm generally able to fit in social activities like meeting up with friends two or three times per week (10 hours), cooking and meal prep (10 hours, may overlap with social activities like when I'm hosting a BBQ), miscellaneous chores (5 hours), a decent chunk of TV, movies, or reading (10-20 hours per week depending on what sports season it is), other kid activities (10-20 hours per week, may overlap with other social activities).

So the ordinary workweeks are a bit tight but doable. Vacation/holiday weeks tend to give a bit more time, but also tend to add on the parenting responsibilities.

And if I'm feeling time pressure, there's always places to get a bit more time: outsourcing some of the cooking and cleaning (not necessarily by hiring someone to come to the home but simply by eating out so that someone else cooks and washes dishes).

[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I also have kids. IMO, the way you're accounting for hours doesn't reflect the boom/bust cycle of the 5 day work and school week.

A day in my work week is:

  • wakeup around 6:15, feed kids, get their stuff ready for school and my stuff ready for work
  • three days a week two neighbor kids come over at 7:30 so their parents can get to work on time
  • I get the kids on the bus two days a week and work from home starting at 8:30 or drive into the office the remaining three days and get there around 8. Although I drive to work, I am able to sneak some exercise having walking conversations with coworkers thanks to being in a large building
  • if I went into the office, leave my desk at 4 and get home around 4:45. If I worked from home the kids get off the bus around 3:45 but I'll still need to finish up my work day
  • cook dinner, referee a heard of wild kids when they swarm through our house, get our kids to do their homework
  • most days tend to have a kid activity thrown in the mix: baseball practice, swimming lessons, robotics club, etc that needs to somehow fit in with homework and dinner
  • bath time around 7:00, story time runs till 8
  • the kids are usually asleep by 8:30, which gives me 2.5 hours of time monday-friday that's work and kid free before I have to go to bed. I can't be too loud or I'll wake the kids up. Combine this with having been up for 14.5 hours and I'm not very inclined to do what used to be my main hobby, making things and tinkering, due to noise and/or mental energy levels. My wife is fine with me sneaking out a day or two a week for a bit, but I don't do that very often due to proximity to friends and many other friends having their own kids and routines

Things will probably calm down some when our kids are a touch older, but right now the week days are very hectic.

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[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

not me lmao

[–] thisisnotausername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I kinda im!

Wake up @ 8am, start work at 8.15am, work till 17.

Then 1h to 4h of sports (either gym, rope climbing or bouldering), 5 times a week

At that point is 18.30/20, got a solid few hours for hobbies/friends/chill.

As you might have notice I don't cook, and commutes are short when climbing ca. 40 mins biking away, work is at home or if I go to the office I go in my lunch hour (20mins commute), gym is 3mins away and bouldering is 10mins biking

Also, no kids.

I sleep every day at ca. 11.30. Get solid 8h in bed, but only around 7h of sleep sadly. Trying to make it 8!

[–] Carbonizer@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I work (4x10 with 30 minute commute), go to the gym 3 days a week, cook healthy meals, maintain relationships with a handful of people, and get 6-7 hours of sleep.

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Kind of. But I mostly only get to do hobbies on weekends and don't always get my full 8 hours

[–] Angelevo@feddit.nl 1 points 3 months ago

Possible.. Hmz. Better ways exist to find. ✨

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

not me. I started to priotize down time where I just don't do anything. I was trying to keep up with all that stuff and it was draining me. of course, working too much was a huge factor (even 8 extra hours in a week is 8 fewer hours for hobbies, plus the impact of the extra mental drain, there's like a time efficiency hit too)

I can keep up with work and like three other things nowadays while getting enough sleep and down time. I just rotate which things week to week. sometimes it's video games, woodworking, gardening, reading, other hobby stuff, home projects, etc. obviously there are weeks where I do more, but that's not the average. and the minimum is two. rec sports keep me engaged with people and getting out of the house regularly instead of "oh it's been rainy for four days and I haven't needed to buy anything so I haven't been outside much in the past 100 hours because I couldn't go for a bike ride"

oh and I don't have kids, just dogs.

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