Is 24 hours less for you? — The Euphoria
The most important thing a person misses when he/she indulges in a job, and insist to fully harness (does/doesn’t enjoy doing it) from the work, is time. If we start enjoying our job, we demand for more time just to get the maximum amount of satisfaction from doing it. But if we don’t then we just want shifts to end to the earliest.
For example, we all enjoy spending time with our loved ones more than our colleagues, so we prefer spending the weekend with them instead the coworkers, common sense right? Here you need more of the time so you can get most of the precious moments and when its over you start missing them.
You must be thinking that why I am repeating the phrase “get most of it” for almost plenty times in each of the above paragraphs. What does this phrase or idiom actually mean in this context ?
So the main idea here is — its human nature, that if we enjoy something then we want more of it because the amount of liking and Economics says, affection for that something increases with every additional consumption. Consider this example, our brain gives you signals to add one additional scoop of ice cream due to it’s sweet amusing taste it gives you with immense amount of pleasure with additional consumption of ice cream. We can relate this amusing reaction of us to a practical situation in life when life becomes hectic. When you plan to achieve something in your life, set your goals, you set a time period within which you aspire to attain success and reach your goals. This makes us busy within our schedules giving us nothing but chaos in our daily routines. We thus start with first messing up our sleeping schedule and then with diets. Once we get used to this schedule of our busy life —we start missing those days of enjoyment and luxury of free time.
Luxury of free time
The workload is that atrocious force taking away all your desires and inclinations like the time you could spend with family or friends but giving you acquisition (compensation) in form of money, payments or salary. So one thing lost is desires and one thing gained is wealth, is it balanced? I think not. Lets suppose in an average day you are given 30 hours with 6 hours as additional.
Now assuming,
(previous 24 hours schedule)minimum 8 hours sleep-8 hours work shift-2 hours for meals for whole day-2–4 hours for office work you do at home, left with 2 hours as spare which can be used for anything extracurricular which maybe your hobbies or spending time with friends, on social media, news etc.
(now with 30 hours)8 hours sleep-8 hours work shift-2 hours for meals-2–4 hours of work left for home-8–10 hours of spare time, imagine what all you can do in this new increased spare time period.
But wait, something is out of practicality
I am speaking debris and which is totally against the laws of this universe.
1868, Congress passed an eight-hour law for federal employees which was also of limited effectiveness. It established an eight-hour workday for labourers and mechanics employed by the Federal Government. President Andrew Johnson had vetoed the act but it was passed over his veto.
Our 24-hour day comes from the ancient Egyptians who divided day-time into 10 hours they measured with devices such as shadow clocks, and added a twilight hour at the beginning and another one at the end of the day-time, says Lomb. “Night-time was divided in 12 hours, based on the observations of stars.”
Right, we can land on moon, start life on mars and build skyscrapers in between the sea but one thing we can never affect is hours in a day.
Then what I actually meant? How is 24 hours less?
In earlier times, the US Congress in late 19th century passed eight-hour labor wage law for federal employees. Before this, wage was offered to as much as one’s ability and capability of working hours (people can work as long as they want and earn as much as they can) which further was restricted due to humanitarian interests and regulation, it turned out that this excessive wage hours without limits are resulting in abuses and extensive labor or manpower misuse. It was also known as short-time movement. This was a social movement to regulate the length of working hours in a day. Okay, so not going any further in boring history and theories and lets come to the main idea of how in this modernized present time needs of people has seen a spur. Even though, working more than 40 hours a week is restricted in some of the states in essence of government norms, people still tend to work more to overcome needs and wants. Also, due to the increased competence of society a day no more feels to be as long as it sounded earlier.
To people with frantic activities and busy schedules, no matter how much time they will become — it will always feel like something productive could also have been done in the day and if we feel the same thing about our days then yes, 24 hours in a day does feel less. Though, we cannot affect the universal measure of 24 hours in a day but what we can manage is proper maintaining lifestyles and appropriate use of every minute in a single day.
Time is money constraint
We all have heard this idiom anywhere or somewhere that time is equivalent to money in some or the other way, lets talk on how this thing works. A millionaire is compared to an ordinary 9–5 earning person, the biggest difference would be their pay; The millionaire is earning suppose $1 million every year which makes him earn $83,400 in a month, $2,780 in a day and $116 every hour (approximately). Now the ordinary person lets suppose with $14 wage rate which is treated as average wage rate is earning $27,000 in a year which is somewhere around $3–4 every hour in a day as compared to the millionaire. So with the opportunity cost opinion, the ordinary person is losing $113–115 every hour because if he was given the life and soul of the millionaire then he would have been earning $116 every hour in a day instead of $3. (I have stated averages using hypothetical data, so please don’t hesitate asking me about how all this was calculated in accordance with)
Conclusion
Therefore, the as we have come to the conclusion about how one could have been more productive with their daily live routines if they were given additional working hours or maybe additional time to spent enjoying with family friends out of their busy schedules then what all changes this could have bring it their lives. Almost all of us aim to be successful in our lives in respective fields of all individuals, I assume. But since no one knows how short this life given to us is and how biased it is at the same time, thus, if we were to be given more hours in a day to make it more advantageous by everything possible we could in a day then I suspect — nothing would be any better than this. To all the loved ones that we have lost, we could have spent more time with them if we had any, is what I think we all wish.
If anything wrong you find was in my words above or anything you feel free to talk about like inadequacy or inaccurate data stated (if) then please feel free to connect with me anytime, till then, wait for Euphoria — 2, my next similar hypothetical and rhetoric article series.