If you work 40 hours a week, you deserve all the free time you have. You also need to take responsibility for the things you need to do with the remaining time you have.

Previously worked in fast food for 3 years, currently working in healthcare for 2 now. I’m tired of hearing people complain about not having enough time for things. Yes, I get that some people have more difficult circumstances, but this is primarily for everyone else. <br><br>--------------------------------------------<br><br>You go to work for 8 hours a day, five days a week, and you still never have time to clean or do laundry or grocery shop. You don’t have time to cook, so you order out or delivery instead. That doesn’t even touch on the time wasted going to the store to get dinner. Everyone needs time to themselves to relax after a long day of work. But that shouldn’t be the entirety of your free time. When you’re at work, there are things that you have to do whether you personally want to or not. The same goes for when you are at home.<br><br>I understand that work can be stressful and tiring, and emotionally taxing. But the things that you need to do are required in order to survive. If you don’t have clean clothes, you’re going to be miserable at work. Living in filth is bad for your mental health, your physical health for your and the health of others around you. There is a connotation around chores that you don’t get paid for them therefore you shouldn’t have to do them. Honestly, I disagree with this. If you have to do something in order to live, then you need to take the responsibility of doing it for yourself. Yes, some chores can be split, but that still doesn’t mean that you don’t have to do them. <br><br>Experimented a little bit with this. It’s not the chores that take so much time, it’s your attitude about them. That extra time on your phone or watching TV or scrolling before bed is just as good as the time you have to use to clean or cook or do laundry. Human beings have a major problem with adapting to change, and the reason we don’t want to do chores is because it is boring and monotonous. It’s not the amount of time we have, it’s the quality of how we use it. And most of the time, we borrow from the time we have to do important things for ourselves to do leisure activities.<br><br>TLDR: Stop complaining about never having time to do anything. Your free time is your free time, you can do with it as you wish. However, you still have to do all the things that are necessary to live and be healthy. Not doing them because you don’t have time is a bullshit excuse.