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Today's tip is that full-time doesn't mean all of the time.

Recognizing that even a full-time job generally leaves a lot of space for other things

can help make a full and happy life possible.

So certain phrases really don't convey situations accurately, and the phrase full-time is one

of the worst culprits. Full-time implies the full amount of your time.

But in many cases, a full-time job amounts to approximately 35 to 40 hours a week.

I remember when I first did the math and realized that a week has 168 hours.

If you sleep eight hours a night, so that is 56 hours per week, and subtract 56 and 40

from 168, you get 72 hours left over. Now, some folks do work more than 40 hours a week, but not that many. The tail on this

normal distribution gets thin really quickly. People go around saying things like, you spend the

majority of your waking hours at work, but for the vast majority of people, that is not true at all.

Unfortunately, using the word full to describe 35 to 40 hours per week of work

causes all sorts of issues.

For instance, some folks assume that they should work part-time because they have a family

and because they don't want work to get the full amount of their time.

They want their families to get part-time too.

But if full-time work isn't actually full-time, this story gets less clear-cut.

Working 40 hours and having 72 hours for other things is already tilted more toward

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