Your life is being wasted by your j-o-b. What we accept as normal, is not. Nor are your feelings about work.
You're life is out of control, every second is filled. You feel stuck in Groundhog Day and truth be told, you don't see a viable way out.
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It's all you can do to survive the day and keep everything afloat. Making just enough money every month to make ends meet, spend just enough time with your kids to keep them marginally content, not much time for you to invest in what inspires you, gives you health and makes the days contain any true joy.
You're not OK with this and feel imprisoned. The primary culprit? The amount of time your j-o-b consumes.
You are paid to fulfill certain tasks, but in the corporate world of managing large amounts of business and people, they are wasting your time. They can't help it. Here is an analogy:
We all know that the public school system requires on average eight hours of a kids time in order to facilitate about four hours of actual class learning. Nobody's fault, just the nature of the beast. Then the kids spend another hour or two pursuing extracurricular actives such as sports or drama.
I see that as wasting my kid's time. With the other four hours they save homeschooling, they can study the Bible, learn to cook, enjoy the outdoors, pursue personal hobbies. Then as a family we have time to interact.
It's the same with self-employment, or for that matter telecommuting to a degree. The time spent
You're not OK with this and feel imprisoned. The primary culprit? The amount of time your j-o-b consumes.
You are paid to fulfill certain tasks, but in the corporate world of managing large amounts of business and people, they are wasting your time. They can't help it. Here is an analogy:
We all know that the public school system requires on average eight hours of a kids time in order to facilitate about four hours of actual class learning. Nobody's fault, just the nature of the beast. Then the kids spend another hour or two pursuing extracurricular actives such as sports or drama.
I see that as wasting my kid's time. With the other four hours they save homeschooling, they can study the Bible, learn to cook, enjoy the outdoors, pursue personal hobbies. Then as a family we have time to interact.
It's the same with self-employment, or for that matter telecommuting to a degree. The time spent
- Commuting
- In required meetings that for every hour spent you get 10 min of value
- Watercooler chit chat
- Lunch
- Busy work that has no real application
- Working on misplaced priorities or flat-out meaningless work
...is saved.
Now on one hand, it's amazing you can get paid for wasting so much time. But the costs are your lack of time to:
- Be involved in your kid's lives
- Be in full union with your spouse
- Be available to serve others when needed
- Invest in your health and wellness - exercise, cooking good foods
- Pursue your spiritual life
- Build a legacy
- (add in your own hot buttons here, of things you don't have time for but desire)
This is where free agency steps far beyond a luxury or 'that would be nice,' and into a responsibility.
Here are what a couple folks shared about this:
"At least 40% of everyday is wasted in meetings and another 10% to busywork, so at least half of every day. After 25 years in the corporate space, I've found that the further you move up the ladder, the higher percentage of the day is wasted. Having started in the trenches and progressed to the C-level, I've seen my waste time go from < 10% to over 50%. A lot of it is determined by your supervisor's expectations i.e. "you will sit in all these meetings that I want you in, or I will be forced to conclude that you don't care about what I care about."
- Scott K.
"Out of the 47 hours spent away from home, at least 10-15 of them could be reclaimed."
- Justin H.
- Scott K.
"Out of the 47 hours spent away from home, at least 10-15 of them could be reclaimed."
- Justin H.
Can you really afford for so much of your time to be wasted? Aside from wanting your actual work to have purpose, what things of value in your life, are you not having the time to invest in?
