Full time jobs are not conducive to optimal health

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eating three times a day (and spending 3 hours cooking and eating) is not optimal for your health after the age of 22.

So I just found you an extra hour. You're welcome.

You're not running one hour of errands every day. You're not having sex for an hour every day. You're not socializing with the community for two hours every day, although you can have a job where you socialize.

?????????

You think people should eat once a day?

twice. IF. look it up.

IF wouldn’t work if you’re exercising 1.5-2 hours per day as this schedule requires.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:why does one require optimal health?

Even good health is difficult to maintain working FT in a capitalist economy. And health is fleeting/elusive anyway. My DH worked out, coached and played basketball 5-6x a week, ate healthy, and still developed colon cancer. He beat it, but he’s never been entirely the same again. During the pandemic, he left his third career and returned to the second as it allowed him to WFH. It’s been great for his overall well being. But working PT would probably be better still. Maybe when we have an empty nest.

My health is ruined. I have cancer and multiple chronic illnesses. It’s partly bad genetics and partly the result of growing up poor with decades of overwork. When I had a flexible enough schedule for medical care, I didn’t have health insurance. When I had insurance, I had an inflexible schedule. I make enough money now that I can afford treatments, but there’s little that can be done to slow progression and nothing that can restore what I’ve already lost.

I have a private disability plan that is 60% of my salary until I would get disability retirement from my employer. It’s laughably low. Still better than SSDI. No one should be financially devastated by a failing body. But we accept this as a society because we fetishize a certain type of productivity —namely, making billionaires even wealthier.

[Anonymous]

You lost me at 3 hrs of cooking. Nobody I know does that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My govt job only pays me $220K but the result is I have time for parenting and exercise.

I save cooking time with a precooked meal delivery service on weeknights for dinner and it is the best timesaver ever.

God, I love you. DCUM. Never change.

It's the entire HHI (i'm a single parent) so hold your fire.

I’m a single parent and I feel like I’m doing well on my one income of $81k.

[Anonymous]

4-6 hours of actual work is what people already do.

[Anonymous]

I assume this post is all about white collar workers. Blue collar are either hourly and need the hours to support a family or other jobs that white collar workers rely on to work. Like teaching or daycare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eating three times a day (and spending 3 hours cooking and eating) is not optimal for your health after the age of 22.

So I just found you an extra hour. You're welcome.

You're not running one hour of errands every day. You're not having sex for an hour every day. You're not socializing with the community for two hours every day, although you can have a job where you socialize.

?????????

You think people should eat once a day?

twice. IF. look it up.

That rule only applies to overweight people. Don’t project.

[Anonymous]

I entirely agree.

[Anonymous]

Meh, I work full-time and don't feel particularly stressed.

I could easily do what was outlined in the OP but nah.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:8-9 hrs of sleep
3 hrs of cooking/eating
1.5-2 hrs exercise/cool down
30 mins-1 hr sex/physical pleasure
1 hr errands
2 hrs of community/socializing

4-6 hrs working max is what someone can do

LOL, You don't have optimal health if you can't pay your bills and have to sleep in your car because you are not working enough hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree OP. I have thought this my whole adult life. I have only had jobs that are flexible enough that I can still exercise. Not surprisingly, I don't make a lot but luckily I'm married. However I think my DH health is suffering because he works at a demanding in-person job with a 30 minute commute.

he's lucky. A lot of people here have 1hour commutes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well duh. I think my health was fine when I worked full time and had a commute. But since kids? Not possible. There's just not enough time for exercise, sleep, socializing, downtime. There aren't enough hours in the day when you spend so many of them taking care of other people and work fulltime.

+ working FT is bad for your health for parents, especially with young kids.

My kids are now teens, and we are finally able to spend more time exercising and doing leisurely activities

I'm looking forward to retiring in a few years so I can stop sitting on my a$$ all day. Yes, I get up and walk around but I still spend a lot of time sitting.

When I was a sahm for a year, I lost weight because I was hardly sitting still. And I was so much healther, happier and had a better sex life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not really sure how to think about this idea. Your premise seems to be that there is not enough time in a day to do all of the things that a human "should" do. If true, the answer there is to do less of some things or combine some things, no?

Couldn't you also just say that cooking isn't conducive to optimal health? Or errands are not conducive to optimal health? And there is no socializing that can occur while running errands or working or exercising or EATING?

And even if the premise/conclusion was true that getting rid of the fulltime job is the ONLY thing you could do to achieve "optimal health", what do you suggest doing about that? How do you suppose we create more workers out of thin air? Or more GDP? And is everything else you do in life all designed to achieve "optimal health"?

I mean, the US could just be less productive. The only people it really benefits are the CEOs and shareholders. No one ever lay on their deathbed thinking "I should have worked more."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eating three times a day (and spending 3 hours cooking and eating) is not optimal for your health after the age of 22.

So I just found you an extra hour. You're welcome.

You're not running one hour of errands every day. You're not having sex for an hour every day. You're not socializing with the community for two hours every day, although you can have a job where you socialize.

?????????

You think people should eat once a day?

twice. IF. look it up.

I did this for 13 months. It darn near caused an eating disorder. I was so focused on the clock it was ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WHO is doing this daily?!

"30 mins-1 hr sex/physical pleasure
1 hr errands
2 hrs of community/socializing"

DAILY??? Nope.

Save time by combining them.

Yeah, have sex while running errands and socializing!