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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

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If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.

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[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works -5 points 3 days ago (13 children)

I get the point, but this is a bit self defeatist.

First of all, 1hr seems a bit excessive for showering and getting dressed, that's like 30 minutes tops for me, I could maybe see an hour if I'm going to a black tie event and I've been doing yardwork all day. If it takes an entire hour to get showered and dressed every single day, personal grooming and wardrobe is one of your hobbies.

Then that 1hr commute can be audiobooks, hobby podcasts, music discovery, etc. With public transportation, it can be physical books, chatting with friends, researching new things, or anything you can do from your phone. You can even knock out some of that mindless scrolling early.

Personally, my "mindless" scrolling is through platforms that I've curated for content relevant to my hobbies and interests. So it doesn't really stay mindless for long, it starts to hit those fulfilling notes. And most of the jobs I've had have had lulls in that 8hr block where I could not-so-mindlessly scroll here and there.

Also 1hr unpaid overtime every day? Um what? They specified wagie so not salaried, anon has a slam dunk labor rights case.

So we found 30min in the morning, those 2hrs of commute are usable, say another 30min of scrolling at work (probably higher, but I'm assuming a more demanding job to be conservative), and fuck off 1hr unpaid work. That's an extra 4hrs of potentially fulfilling time if you use it.

Like yeah, wagie life is draining, don't get me wrong. But you have the power to reclaim some of that.

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