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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
Good morning.
This is Laura.
Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Today's tip is that full-time doesn't mean all of the time.
Recognizing that even a full-time job generally leaves a lot of space for other things can help make a full and happy life possible.
So certain phrases really don't convey situations accurately.
And the phrase full-time is one of the worst culprits.
Full-time implies the full amount of your time.
But in many cases, a full-time job amounts to approximately 35 to 40 hours a week.
I remember when I first did the math and realized that a week has 168 hours.
If you sleep eight hours a night, so that is 56 hours per week, and subtract 56 and 40 from 168, you get 72 hours left over.
Now some folks do work more than 40 hours a week, but not that many.
The tail on this normal distribution gets thin really quickly.
People go around saying things like, you spend the majority of your waking hours at work.
But for the vast majority of people, that is not true at all.
Unfortunately, using the word full to describe 35 to 40 hours per week of work causes all sorts of issues.
For instance, some folks assume that they should work part-time because they have a family and because they don't want work to get the full amount of their time.
They want their families to get part-time too.
But if full-time work isn't actually full-time, this story gets less clear-cut.
Working 40 hours and having 72 hours for other things is already tilted more toward life than work.
It's unclear what would be more balanced about working 20 hours and having 92 hours for other things.
There may be reasons for this, but it isn't more balanced.
The other problem with the word full is that folks who do work full-time often assume they have no time for other things.
I mean, how could they?
Work is consuming the full amount of their time. except that it isn't.
In 72 waking non-working hours, it is quite possible to find three to four hours to exercise or two to three hours to volunteer, in addition to spending lots of time with family members and friends.
If you have never tracked your time before, I suggest trying it.
One of the first things people see is how much time they have outside of work, even if they are working full-time hours.
If you are home from work at 530 pm and go to bed at 1030 pm, that is five hours each day, Monday to Friday, to attend to the rest of your life.
Plus, there's likely some time in the morning too.
If you are up at 6.30 a.m., and leave for work at 8.
That's another 90 minutes that can be acknowledged as existing.
You probably don't spend all of it in the shower.
And then there's weekends.
There are 36 waking hours between 6 p.m.
Friday and 6 a.m.
Monday.
That is almost the equivalent of a full-time job right there.
Once you recognize that full-time work still leaves a lot of time for other things, this opens up possibilities.
Instead of assuming you have no time, you can start to assume that you do have time.
And you can start asking what you'd like to do with it.
Personally, I think this is a much more useful mindset.
You start to see that it might be possible to get up and run for 30 minutes two mornings a week and read for 45 minutes at night most nights.
You might be able to go play in a pickleball league on Tuesdays and still have space for lots of just hanging out.
Full-time isn't full-time at all.
It is some amount of time.
But generally, there is space for everything else.
In the meantime, this is Laura.
Thanks for listening.
And here's to making the most of our time.
Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.
If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach me at laura at lauravandercam.com.
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