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Originally Posted by -jimi-
Work eats up your time, and it does, 8 hours a day is never 8 hours, it is 8 hours plus overtime plus commuting plus getting dressed and fixed up for work, plus add in the work you take home with you, either by worrying or by actual working and so on. You are happy if you end up with only 11 hours here.
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The thing is also that other societies do not have this way of working. They work less hours and have more vacation.
I do agree that it is a good thing to simplify but the idea of working part time seems like a dream. I just can't find that many jobs that are part time and, if I do, they are typically part time in PAY only. i.e. they want you there all the time or give you more work. Also part time jobs don't always give you benefits, which are important.
I plan on just doing what I can to retire at the earliest point possible. A co worker who had worked 25+ years at the job and could just retire, didn't and stuck around for an important work thing. Then, she got cancer and died. That scared the crap out of me. All that she probably put up with just to get her retirement and she didn't even get to enjoy it.