How I spent my first 10,000 days

The first thing I looked into was how I’ve spend these first 10,000 days. This information is displayed in broad categories in the graph below:

“Infancy” includes the time from when I was born to my first day of school, minus weekends. “School” includes the time from my first day of primary school, to my last day of high school, minus weekends and school holidays. “University” includes both my Bachelors and Masters degrees, minus weekends and holidays. “Working” includes all the time I’ve been working full-time, minus weekends and holidays. “Holidays” therefore includes both holidays from school and full-time work.

Little Callum

I was slightly surprised to see that weekends have so far made up the greatest part of my life (it doesn’t feel that way!). I certainly didn’t expect to see the number of weekends (2,857 days) exceed the number of days spent in school (2,680 days). Following weekends and school are holidays (1,540 days), working (1,180 days), infancy (1,143 days), and university (600 days).

At the current rate, I can expect working to overtake holidays around the end of February 2019, but it will take until July 2023 for working to overtake school.