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> every two years that goes by at a company you don't like (or unemployed) is wasting 2% of your working life. Can someone explain this? Is OP suggesting that
by jstanley 6y ago
> every two years that goes by at a company you don't like (or unemployed) is wasting 2% of your working life.
Can someone explain this? Is OP suggesting that the typical working life is 100 years?
- knuthsat 6y agoDepends on how much time (in hours) you spend working. 2 years is maybe 1 year of working time.
- godDLL 6y ago1/50 is 2% math
- atleta 6y agoNot too many people work for 50 years. Also, the post said every two years: "every two years that goes by at a company you don't like".
- atleta 6y agoIt was ambiguous, but he compared the wasted time (time wasted at work while working for a bad company) to the total time you have in your working life. He says you spend 21%-35% of your time at work, so during that 2 years you'd spend .42-0.7 years working. And if you calculate with 40 years of work life, then it comes to about 2% of that time.
- rdiddly 6y agoThat might be what happened. The reason it's unsound is, the numerator is in actual time spent at work and the denominator is in total elapsed time including non-work.
- rdiddly 6y agoYeah, it's wrong. 2 years out of let's say 40 would be 5%. 2/50 is 4%. Also 8 hrs is closer to half one's waking hours so that's either another math error, or a mistaken inclusion of the word "waking" (actually he used "awake"), or he works part-time.