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Your week has 112 hours of waking time.

If you spend 50% of that at work, you have spent 50% of it at work. Probably the most productive 50%.

The entire point of working for someone else is to attain enough money that you don't need to any more and you can treat it as more of an optional thing. If you're not doing that then unless you really enjoy your job burnout is inevitable.



> The entire point of working for someone else is to attain enough money that you don't need to any more and you can treat it as more of an optional thing.

If that were the singular goal/point, then most people should simply give up working entirely because they'll never reach it. They're working their own version of the sunk cost fallacy.


Most people get to the optional thing when they reach retirement age.




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