Working For Others Vs Working For You: The Speed Of Time

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I sat down to work on personal projects this morning and I only just noticed the time because I got an Instagram notification.

I have been sitting and working for over 2 hours.

That may not seem like a sustained effort for some and for others that may seem like an eternity.

I have come to appreciate the variability of the hour and minutes depending on the task.

We all know what I am talking about. We have all been in that position where we were sitting at our desks in school waiting for the minutes to tick over so that we could go to the playground and have fun with friends. That feeling unfortunately extended for many of us into university, where we would be working on assessment in lectures counting down the number of remaining slides on the presentation. Waiting for the time to pass and hoping that we could be over with time.

Now many people sit in their office cubicles, dabbling away half-heartedly on a task and projects that they are only doing in the hope to get promoted one day or worse just doing enough to not get fired.

Those 8-hour workdays stacked on top of one another and another, making up a 40-year career until you have the opportunity to retire.