I have been preaching about this for a few years now. I am glad that someone else realizes that the majority of jobs in America do not allow people to fully enjoy their lives when they are away from work.

At night after work, you don’t feel like cooking or exercising because you are tired from working during the day (for most people that is 5 out of 7 days per week … and you still have to sleep at night so really you have 5-6 hours of independent time 5 days of the week because it always takes an hour or two per day to get ready for and transport yourself to your workplace … that leaves about 20-25 hours of time to yourself in a 5 day period not to mention that you have to cook, clean, and take care of errands which cuts into that time … plain and simple that is not healthy for the mind or body and it sucks). On the weekend, you get to feel good for a day or two but many people have to work weekends in America especially the food and entertainment industry. And for vacations, I couldn’t agree more with the common European structure of 1 month or more.

And I am a person who has worked from 80 to over 100 hours of work per week consistently before. Man, I was crazy!