If you work 40 hours a week starting at 5 years old, you'll have worked 2,080 hours by the time you're 40, which is an insane amount of hours, and you'll still not have worked a full year.

I know this isn't your normal "MY SHOWER THOUGHT!!1!", But I thought it was an interesting math exercise.<br><br>Put it this way: 40 years, starting from 5 years old, and 40 hours a week at a full-time job, equals 89,440 hours. <br>Dividing 89,440 hours worked by 24 hours a day is **3735 days**. Divide 3735 days by 365.25 days a year, and suddenly you've worked **10.23 years** of your life, assuming you work 40 hours a week in a full-time job, which is insane.<br><br>However, the point of this post: Let's assume you worked all those 10 years, all 89,440 hours worked up until you were 45, and didn't miss a single day of work, and you put it all into one long day. How long would it be?<br><br>Divide those 89,440 hours worked by 60 minutes an hour, and you suddenly get **5,286,000,000 minutes.** Divide those minutes by 60 seconds a minute, and you get **31,716,000,000 seconds.** Divide /those/ seconds by 31,536,000 seconds, the average number of seconds in a year, and you get **1,006.6 years.**<br><br>Now, dividing 1,006.6 years by 60 seconds in a minute, you get **60,399,600 minutes, and dividing that by 60 minutes in an hour, you get **1,006,660 hours.** Divide those hours by 24 hours in a day, and you get **41,945.833333332 days**. Divide that number by 365.25 days a year, and you get **114.79 years** in a day, assuming you put all the time spent working, doing school, and being a kid into one day.<br><br>Then I started wondering, what if we put the average person's first 40 years of work, their school, and their childhood into one day. **How long would that be?** <br>The average person works 40 years and retires at 65. In first-world countries, it's assumed you won't work until you're 18 years old, although that may vary. Assuming you work 40 hours a week at a full-time job, you work 2,080 hours a year. If you work from age 18 to age 65, that's 188,480 hours worked. <br>Assume you're in school from age 6 to age 18, you'll be in school for 12 years. Now, assume you work the same amount of hours in school as in full-time, which is an insane amount for a kid, which is 2,080 hours a year. Then multiply that by 12 years, and you get 24,960 hours spent in school. <br>Assume that kids under 5 don't work, and we get 24,960 hours in school + 188,480 hours at a job, for a grand total for the first 65 years of your life of 213,440 hours spent either working or in school. <br>Multiply that by 60 minutes an hour, and we get 12,806,400 minutes spent working or in school. Multiply that by 60 seconds a minute, and we get 768,384,000 seconds. Then we divide that by 31,536,000 seconds a year, and we get **24.36 years.** <br>Multiply that by 60 seconds a minute, 24.36 years times 31,536,000 seconds a year, and you get **768,407,760 seconds.** <br>Then, divide that by 60 minutes in an hour, we get 12,806,462 minutes. Divide that by 60 minutes per hour, we get 213,441 hours. <br>Divide the hours by 24 hours a day, we get 8,893.79 days. Divide 8,893.79 days by 365.25 days a year, we get **24.36 years.**<br><br>So, if you put your entire life into one day, and you worked every day since you were a kid, assuming you worked a full-time 40-hour job every hour of your life, how long would that be?<br><br>**24 years, which is insane, and not at all what I was expecting.**<br><br>Edit: I know upvoting early ruins the algorithm, but I can't help myself. Also, I'll be trying to respond to everyone, but there are a lot of comments.