“If you want to kill time, try working it to death.”

– Sam Levonson

To those people that tell you work isn’t life:

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

Each year you will work:

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)

Anyone that says work is not life is asking you to waste half of your life. Make every minute on this planet valuable. Find what you love to do and share your passion with the world.