How much time does it take? (Score 1)

There are 168 hours in a week. I can't believe it takes all of them just for eating, sleeping, working, and keeping up with technology.

When you consider that almost half of your available waking hours are consumed by work, its not all that surprising that it can be. I find that I have at most 4-5 hours available on the average work day for my personal life. Work and the mechanics of life consume the rest. Increasingly I find myself using that time for a break from the frenetic pace at the office.

I'm still learning this stuff, so I may be naive, but my impression is that an hour or two a day is all it really takes to maintain your skillset.

That may be the case, but that hour or two can come at a heavy price when weighed against time with family and friends. The question is do we work to live or live to work?

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