WEBVTT - Second Cup: Full time doesn't mean all of the time

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning.

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<v Speaker 1>This is Laura, Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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<v Speaker 1>tip is that full time doesn't mean all of the time.

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<v Speaker 1>Recognizing that even a full time job generally leaves a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of space for other things can help make a

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<v Speaker 1>full and happy life possible. So certain phrases really don't

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<v Speaker 1>convey situations accurately, and the phrase full time is one

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<v Speaker 1>of the worst culprits. Full time implies the full amount

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<v Speaker 1>of your time, but in many cases, a full time

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<v Speaker 1>job amounts to approximately thirty five to forty hours a week.

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<v Speaker 1>I remember when I first did the math and realized

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<v Speaker 1>that a week has one hundred sixty eight hours. If

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<v Speaker 1>you sleep eight hours a night, so that is fifty

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<v Speaker 1>six hours per week, and subtract fifty six and forty

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<v Speaker 1>from one hundred sixty eight, you get seventy two hours

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<v Speaker 1>left over. Now, some folks do work more than forty

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<v Speaker 1>hours a week, but not that many. The tail on

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<v Speaker 1>this normal distribution gets thin really quickly. People go around

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<v Speaker 1>saying things like you spend the majority of your waking

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<v Speaker 1>hours at work, but for the vast majority of people

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<v Speaker 1>that is not true. At all. Unfortunately, using the word

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<v Speaker 1>full to describe thirty five to forty hours per week

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<v Speaker 1>of work causes all sorts of issues. For instance, some

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<v Speaker 1>folks assume that they should work part time because they

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<v Speaker 1>have a family, and because they don't want work to

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<v Speaker 1>get the full amount of their time, they want their

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<v Speaker 1>families to get part time too. But if full time

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<v Speaker 1>work isn't actually full time, this story gets less clear cut.

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<v Speaker 1>Working forty hours and having seventy two hours for other

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<v Speaker 1>things is already tilted more toward life than work. It's

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<v Speaker 1>unclear what would be more balanced about working twenty hours

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<v Speaker 1>and having ninety two hours for other things. There may

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<v Speaker 1>be reasons for this, but it isn't more balanced. The

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<v Speaker 1>other problem with the word full is that folks who

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<v Speaker 1>do work full time often assume they have no time

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<v Speaker 1>for other things. I mean, how could they work is

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<v Speaker 1>consuming the full amount of their time, except that it isn't.

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<v Speaker 1>In seventy two waking non working hours, it is quite

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<v Speaker 1>possible to find three to four hours to exercise or

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<v Speaker 1>two to three hours to vuluntier, in addition to spending

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<v Speaker 1>lots of time with family members and friends. If you

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<v Speaker 1>have never tracked your time before, I suggest trying it.

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<v Speaker 1>One of the first things people see is how much

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<v Speaker 1>time they have outside of work, even if they are

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<v Speaker 1>working full time hours. If you are home from work

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<v Speaker 1>at five thirty pm and go to bed at ten

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<v Speaker 1>thirty pm, that is five hours each day Monday to

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<v Speaker 1>Friday to attend to the rest of your life. Plus

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<v Speaker 1>there's likely some time in the morning too. If you

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<v Speaker 1>are up at six thirty am and leave for work

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<v Speaker 1>at eight, that's another ninety minutes that can be acknowledged

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<v Speaker 1>as existing. You probably don't spend all of it in

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<v Speaker 1>the shower. And then there's weekends. There are thirty six

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<v Speaker 1>waking hours between six pm Friday and six am Monday.

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<v Speaker 1>That is almost the equivalent of a full time job

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<v Speaker 1>right there. Once you recognize that full time work still

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<v Speaker 1>leaves a lot of time for other things, this opens

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<v Speaker 1>up possibilities. Instead of assuming you have no time, you

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<v Speaker 1>can start to assume that you do have time, and

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<v Speaker 1>you can start asking what you'd like to do with it. Personally,

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<v Speaker 1>I think this is a much more useful mindset. You

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<v Speaker 1>start to see that it might be possible to get

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<v Speaker 1>up and run for thirty minutes two mornings a week

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<v Speaker 1>and read for forty five minutes at night most nights.

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<v Speaker 1>You might be able to go play in a pickleball

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<v Speaker 1>league on Tuesdays and still have space for lots of

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<v Speaker 1>just hanging out. Full time isn't full time at all.

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<v Speaker 1>It is some amount of time, but generally there is

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<v Speaker 1>space for everything else in the meantime. This is Laura.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of

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<v Speaker 1>our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast. If you've

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<v Speaker 1>got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach me at

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