lately I'd been pulling ~60 hour weeks working late, rushing projects. this also meant feeling like crap, eating dinner out and cabbing home because I'm at work till 10pm. the worst was when i dropped and smashed my phone because i was too tired one night and lost my grip.
this got me to accounting for the cost of working so much. besides possible longer ramifications to health and wellness, what about the short term costs?
the additional cost in the past week alone was $15 per day for transport, $15 per day for food, $350 for replacing my phone. ($500), and 20 hours on unpaid overtime.
post tax, i earn $865 per week. over a normal 42 hour week, this means an hourly wage of ~$21. in other words, 24 ($500/$21) of my work hours this week went fully towards funding the cost of my tiredness. add that to the 20 unpaid hours, and basically ive thrown in the hours of a full time job without making a single cent for myself.
by accounting for my time this way, im starting to scale back on my hours. because a job is only valuable insofar as it buys you the freedom to do as you please.
Submitted August 04, 2018 at 04:01AM by drawerofstuff https://ift.tt/2MmhxPK
