Working your Life Away

* You will spend at least 2,080 hours per year working a full-time job in the United States.
* This equals 87 straight days working per year without a single break to eat, drink or sleep.
* If you begin working full time at age 18 and stop at 65 you'll spend 97,760 hours at work.
* Or we can look at this as only 4,073 continuous days without a break.
* To put this in perspective, at a child's eleventh birthday they'll have barely experienced 4,000 days.
* Factoring out sleep, we only have 242 days per year to be awake
* This means you spend greater than 36% of your waking time working.
* If we average 2 hours a day eating then we only have 212 days to call our own
* And this increases our time spent working to greater than 41%
* The average time spent behind the wheel each day for Americans is 87 minutes
* If we consider this part of your work day, then you are at work for 45% of your time
* 460 hours (57 work days) more then a peasant in 13th century England
* 716 hours (90 work days) more then an average worker in Germany
* 1456 hours (182 work days) more then the !Kung Bushman (a group of hunters and gatherers)