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Ask HN: How much free time do you get per day?
This should not include the time where you have to read blogs, learn something to keep up with your industry.
- J_Darnley 10y ago12 hours.
- nwrk 10y ago24 hours. It's Your life you decide how spend time.
- oolongCat 10y agoLike it or not you are going to have to sleep.
- eicnix 10y agoYou can at least try to minimize your sleep by using polyphasic sleep.
- AznHisoka 10y agospoken from someone who probably doesn't have kids...
- goodJobWalrus 10y agoI guess that should fall under "your life...you decide..."
- throweway 10y agoChoose and free have different meanings to different people. I chose to have kids. Is the time i spend with thwm free time? Yes and no.
- eecks 10y ago7-8 asleep/going to sleep/waking up 1.5 hour commute (incl to work and back) 7.5-8.5 hours working wake up at 6 (shower here) in work at 7:40 leave work 16:00 or 17:00 home by 17:00 or 18:00 bed at 22:00 so my free time is 4/5 hours.
- afsafafaf 10y agoWhere do you work 7.5-8.5 hours/day? Normally work 9.5 hours=10
- kleer001 10y agoNone. Always doing stuff. “no such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time, all you got is life time… go!” —Henry Rollins,
- ChuckMcM 10y agoThat is a great quote. Something that isn't obvious when you're younger, you are "spending time to get to an objective" and time not getting to that objective you consider "free". But the reality is that there are no objectives, there is really just living your life until you are dead. Sure you will spend some time doing something that sets up your ability to do something else, but at the end of a lifetime its all about having invested in what you think has the most impact on you, your family, your community, your world.
- Akash0001 10y agoWhole day if want to learn or nothing when doing something important than anything.
- crazypyro 10y agoNew grad (Dec '15). I have no commitments at all except for my ~35hr/week job, so I have a great amount of time to do whatever I want. Mostly I just end up playing video games...
- ljk 10y agoimo "doing nothing" is good to prevent burnout
- askafriend 10y agoThe key is not having a significant other or kids!
- kek918 10y agoI leave home at 0700 to drive my kid to kinder garden and myself to work which begins at 0800. I leave work at 1600 to pick up my son and we're home at 1700. We try to get him to bed at 2000 latest. I have to go to bed somewhere between 22-23 so usually no more than 2-3 hours every day. Sometimes I'm too tired to work on my side projects so I end up playing videogames or stream some TV shows to relax.