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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t get it. She gets home at 6:15pm. That’s plenty of time to grab drinks with friends, go to the gym, watch a show, make a dinner, take a shower or some combo. 
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I think part of the problem is that work takes your prime energy hours and leaves you with the exhausting evening hours. Add in things like cooking dinner, needing to get laundry done, other chores and childcare, there just isn’t much usable time in the evening. What good is free time if everything else is zapping your energy to make the most of that free time.

Honestly this is why I work from home. I want to go for a run or grocery shop in the middle of the day, not at 7 pm. [/quote]

The TikTok poster doesn’t have kids.  When I was in my 20s I worked from 7:30 am- 5:00 pm most weekdays. I was home by 5:15 (yes yes very short commute), cooked some ten minute dinner or ordered food, and still had time to watch tv or workout or grab drinks with friends.  I did laundry maybe once a week on weekends.  I had five hours after work each day to do whatever I wanted, and all weekend.  I always wanted more free time but certainly didn’t feel burned out or anything.  She just doesn’t want to work.[/quote]

Honestly I think it’s her commute. In my 20s I could either walk to work or had a very short drive. I spent a summer in college doing an internship in my home city that involved a hellacious interstate commute from my parents’ home (where I could live for free) to downtown. The stress of the drive and unpredictability of traffic was just draining. I knew I never wanted to live like that even if it met sharing a small space with roommates. Long car commutes are one of the worst things for physical and mental health. Even now I live in a smaller, close-in house. I no longer go into the office since COVID but my DH does at times and we just don’t want either of us to ever waste our time in a car. The TikTok poster would be happier if she’d just slum it with some other kids her age closer to the city.[/quote]

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