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remembersomeone t1_jcllhnd wrote

There’s plenty of supporting evidence for this. When you come home from work you run errands for the next day, do housework and maybe get an hour or so to relax before bed. Gotta go to bed early since work is early the next day. Gets even more complicated if you’re someone who has family to take care of with extracurricular activities or someone who is aging.

It’s just… work, get ready for work the next day, repeat. Until the weekend, where you catch up on personal chores you couldn’t do during the week — if you’re lucky enough to not work weekends.

It’s exhausting.

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EmiliusReturns t1_jclw42z wrote

The 40 hours work week was designed for an era where only one spouse/parent had to work and could support his family on a single income and the other one was able to stay home and do all the domestic labor and child rearing so it didn’t end up piling up at the end of the week.

In this day and age when both people have to work it becomes really hard to keep up with it. I don’t know how people with kids to do it. It’s hard enough to stay on top of my 2-adult, 1-pet household.

I don’t know what has to change to fix this but shit, something does.

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tyleritis t1_jcm74mo wrote

I’m in a 2-working adult, one pet household. I got injured and we had to hire a house cleaner. It was hard before but then it became impossible

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ThatAudiGuy92 t1_jcn5ybz wrote

As a single full time dad with a full time job, I am always busy and always tired. Get us ready for work/ school, work, get kids, cook dinner and do chores, have about one hour to relax, do it 4 more times. It's exhausting

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PermissionToConnect t1_jcnn0t3 wrote

You aren't kidding. Between commuting and then just wanting some down time before eating dinner, you have really no time to unwind from work. Two days off isn't enough.

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ozzy_og_kush t1_jcnjv15 wrote

Mentally challenging jobs like mine (software architect but I also do a lot of hands on coding) can be just as draining as the physically challenging ones. Decision fatigue can happen very quickly, leaving little energy left for chores or recreation. A 4 day work week would be a huge benefit for achieving personal goals that don't involve work.

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Wuz314159 t1_jco2qa4 wrote

lol... I go into work on Thursday and don't leave the building until Sunday night.

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