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by the_watcher 4418 days ago
Pet peeve: 120 hours a week is 17 hours a day, leaving 7 hours for sleep assuming literally nothing else is done. While those kind of numbers are often used to sum up the lifestyle of "wake up at 6, get to work at 7, get breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks with work, get home at 10, go to sleep, repeat," even that ridiculous schedule puts you at 15 hours a day, or 105 hours a week, assuming you treat weekends the same as weekdays. To hit 120 hours a week, you'd have to be arriving at work at 5 and leaving at 10 every day (or 7 and 12, etc.), and that counts all meals and breaks as work hours. No one I've ever met works that many hours (and I went to college with a lot of bankers). There may be the occasional day like that, or the odd week where you push 120 hours (but primarily based on one or two all nighters), but no one regularly spends 71% of their total week working, unless you count any non-leisure as work. It's simply not possible.