Hotashi - Jack’s Blog

It’s a civic holiday today in Ontario. I wish we had longer weekends, or just shorter work days. In most European countries (maybe all?) they only work a maximum of 6 hours per day, whereas in North America we typically work 8 hours or more each day. That’s a third of our day gone! Plus it takes time to get to and from work as well (for me that’s 2.5 hours), and add on 8 hours of sleep, then we only get 5.5 hours each day to do our own thing. That’s not a lot of time at all! You need some time to relax, time to cook and eat dinner, do some exercise, chat with people. And there’s always some extra things you want to do — for me I’m trying to learn learn Japanese. Does anyone actually think a 9-5 schedule is fine?