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Woah woah woah. I mean video games are a drop in the bucket of the conversation here. WHO actually has 60 hours a week of leisure between the ages of 31-55?! H

Woah woah woah. I mean video games are a drop in the bucket of the conversation here. WHO actually has 60 hours a week of leisure between the ages of 31-55?! How is that the average? 6am: wake. shower sometimes. 6:15am-7:45: take care of kids, eat breakfast, get dressed. 7:45-5:45: commute and work. 6-7: eat dinner 7-7:30: kids to bed. 7:30-8: cleanup house 8-10: maybe leisure, often home production. 10: bed. Weekends have _at most_ 6 hours of leisure per day. That works out to 22 hours, best case scenario. I asked around the office. No one else is getting 60 hours.

hnaccy 9y ago
>Weekends have _at most_ 6 hours of leisure per day. Why?
- adventured 9y ago
  Mow the lawn, do laundry, clean the house, maybe maintenance on a vehicle with a trip to the dealership or self-work, rake leaves, take the kids to sports practice, run errands, pay bills, do taxes, deal with family problems, deal with being sick or having a child that is sick, fix a broken sink, pick your husband up at the airport an hour drive each way, fix the garage door motor that has been acting up, help your son improve at math by working with him for hours on it over the weekend, and approximately 807 other things that need to get done at some point with weekends being ideal. Simplify life? Oh, sure.
InitialLastName 9y ago
> I asked around the office. No one else is getting 60 hours. Sounds like significant sampling bias right there. US prime age employment rate (25-54 years old) is 78% (which counts part time employees). I'd guess that the 22% you didn't interview, and the part time employees (who likely don't work in an office) are far less busy.
mesozoic 9y ago
no kids, work less, eat fast food, be sloppy Not saying its a great lifestyle but easily get to 60 hours.
roymurdock 9y ago
Leisure is defined as all non-working hours ("non-market time" in the paper). Household chores, taking care of kids, etc. is all considered leisure hour activity in economic data. In this analysis, the researchers include 7 hours per day to sleeping/eating: "We include a sub-set of time spent on eating, sleeping, and personal care (ESP) in leisure. In particular, we treat 7 hours per day as non-discretionary ESP, and the residual as leisure." So they're really looking at the breakdown between labor and everything else in an average 17 hour day. http://glossary.econguru.com/economic-term/leisure http://glossary.econguru.com/economic-term/leisure
52-6F-62 9y ago
You can afford kids at 31 these days?? Sign me up for one of those paycheques! Kidding aside, for a 31-year old without children my time is consumed differently, but consumed mostly the same. 6 AM wake, workout 7:30 AM Make/eat breakfast, clean, get dressed 9 AM - 6/7 PM commute and work 67PM make/eat dinner 7/8PM - 10/11PM chores and home prod and/or more workout 11PM/12AM bed and I'm usually behind on chores because I commit to other work/learning so as not to stagnate Most days, anyway. We certainly have a little more flexibility without kids... but every year that passes before one could responsibly take that on...

hnaccy 9y ago

>Weekends have _at most_ 6 hours of leisure per day. Why?

adventured 9y ago
Mow the lawn, do laundry, clean the house, maybe maintenance on a vehicle with a trip to the dealership or self-work, rake leaves, take the kids to sports practice, run errands, pay bills, do taxes, deal with family problems, deal with being sick or having a child that is sick, fix a broken sink, pick your husband up at the airport an hour drive each way, fix the garage door motor that has been acting up, help your son improve at math by working with him for hours on it over the weekend, and approximately 807 other things that need to get done at some point with weekends being ideal. Simplify life? Oh, sure.

InitialLastName 9y ago

> I asked around the office. No one else is getting 60 hours. Sounds like significant sampling bias right there. US prime age employment rate (25-54 years old) is 78% (which counts part time employees). I'd guess that the 22% you didn't interview, and the part time employees (who likely don't work in an office) are far less busy.

mesozoic 9y ago

no kids, work less, eat fast food, be sloppy Not saying its a great lifestyle but easily get to 60 hours.

roymurdock 9y ago

Leisure is defined as all non-working hours ("non-market time" in the paper). Household chores, taking care of kids, etc. is all considered leisure hour activity in economic data. In this analysis, the researchers include 7 hours per day to sleeping/eating: "We include a sub-set of time spent on eating, sleeping, and personal care (ESP) in leisure. In particular, we treat 7 hours per day as non-discretionary ESP, and the residual as leisure." So they're really looking at the breakdown between labor and everything else in an average 17 hour day. http://glossary.econguru.com/economic-term/leisure http://glossary.econguru.com/economic-term/leisure

52-6F-62 9y ago

You can afford kids at 31 these days?? Sign me up for one of those paycheques! Kidding aside, for a 31-year old without children my time is consumed differently, but consumed mostly the same. 6 AM wake, workout 7:30 AM Make/eat breakfast, clean, get dressed 9 AM - 6/7 PM commute and work 67PM make/eat dinner 7/8PM - 10/11PM chores and home prod and/or more workout 11PM/12AM bed and I'm usually behind on chores because I commit to other work/learning so as not to stagnate Most days, anyway. We certainly have a little more flexibility without kids... but every year that passes before one could responsibly take that on...