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Surely it can’t be, right?

So I'm an idiot and just for funsies had the idea of looking at the numbers of how many weeks the average person works if at a traditonal 9-5. Crunching this down for my own sanity even though I know its been done plenty. Really trying to get this through my head. Using various sites I settled that the average person works 40 weeks or 200days(40wksx5days) a year fair enough. So 54.7% of our days a year are a work day. So we have a full 165 days to ourselves. But then the calculated time were inactive using 8 hrs of sleep a night(too make things easy). So 165 non-wrk days x8 hrs sleep= 1320 non-wrk day sleep hrs ÷ 24 hrs a day = 55 days. 55 days of the 165 are spent asleep. Might not be working, but not exactly “free” to do anything so 55 days alseep…


So I'm an idiot and just for funsies had the idea of looking at the numbers of how many weeks the average person works if at a traditonal 9-5. Crunching this down for my own sanity even though I know its been done plenty. Really trying to get this through my head.

Using various sites I settled that the average person works 40 weeks or 200days(40wksx5days) a year fair enough. So 54.7% of our days a year are a work day. So we have a full 165 days to ourselves. But then the calculated time were inactive using 8 hrs of sleep a night(too make things easy). So 165 non-wrk days x8 hrs sleep= 1320 non-wrk day sleep hrs ÷ 24 hrs a day = 55 days. 55 days of the 165 are spent asleep. Might not be working, but not exactly “free” to do anything so 55 days alseep + 200 work days = 255 total. All work days added to the cumulative time asleep on a non work day. So you can add, roughly, 7.8 weeks of sleep from “free days” to your wrk weeks. So roughly 48 weeks a year. 255 ÷ 365 = 69.8%. Roughly 70% of time is either asleep or a day attached to work in this example. So roughly 30% is totally to yourself. Meaning you'd have 110 days awake not attached to work, not asleep in this example.

Is this math correct? Does one really have this much time? And if so why doesn't it feel like it?

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