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Conor Friedersdorf asks, “am I really expected to work 40+ hours per week, 50 weeks per year, for decades? Am I to savor only two days off each week? Am I to vacation but two weeks per annum?”
Yes.
(Well, actually, you should get some holidays off. And, maybe, get a third week of vacation at some point. But, basically, yeah.)
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The moral of the story is to make your living doing something you love doing or else learn to love whatever you’re doing to make your living. You’re going to be doing a lot of it.
BTW, 15,000 years ago we were doing a lot less. Check the lifestyles of hunter-gatherers. But if you think that boom-bust is tough now check out what it was like for hunter-gatherers.
I work 161 hours a week. To get to work, I have to walk six miles, uphill each way, in the snow. I’ve been doing this since I was three years old. I have never had a vacation. In fact, I have to have a portion of my pay taken each week that gets paid to my employer so that HE can have a vacation.
You people are all pansies…
A year or two ago I might have been talking right here at OTB about the low US savings rate. Some people might do better than expected with leasure time … but a high savings rate helps. It is possible to live paycheck to paycheck on any amount, and be insecure on 1/4 million a year, as other people demonstrate. (We are doing better, as a nation.)
