Remembering the 40-hour workweek

[ysabetwordsmith]

 ... which is of course gone.  Life sucks, because nobody has time for life anymore.  It's all drudgery.  Often it doesn't even pay enough to live on.

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Yes...

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

>> We'd probably be better off overall with even less, like a 30-32 hr work week for most jobs. <<

That's true for some types of exhausting jobs, and anything that people do only for the money. Jobs that people enjoy, it's okay to work longer. I spend much of my writing wordsmithing because that's what I like.

>> (Assuming, of course, that the wages are adjusted so 30-32 hrs/week pays a living wage.) <<

True. Even working 60 or 80 hours a week, many people can't make a living wage.

Re: Yes...

[westrider.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I said "most" based on my own experience. I've generally been most productive at around 30 hours per week, but there have been exceptions.

Then my current job is kind of an outlier, because in one sense I "work" around 55 hours a week, but the vast majority of that time, I don't actually have to do anything, I just have to be here and be attentive, so I can get up and help when needed. Right now I'm technically at work, and I'm getting paid, but what I'm actually doing is sitting around surfing the internet and not wearing pants ;)

Re: Yes...

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

I like working from home precisely because, if it's too hot in here, I can just peel off.