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How much time should you spend supporting your livelihood?

I guess it depends on what kind of place you'd like to live in, what kind of tools you'd like to have, what kind of food you'd like to eat... but perhaps assuming a basic level met,  perhaps it would be good to decide on a fixed number of hours a day you'd like to use, and make the most of those hours.

In the common job culture, a "work" day is 8 hours. Now, livelihood is about all the energy/time put in to the final outcome.  So time to get ready for work, time to travel to and return from work should be factored in.  Also, work at home to balance your books, to prepare food, to pickup around the house and such should be also included.  The sum of all these activities is how much time you use for livelihood.

Let's look at job time. Eight hours a day. Why eight? So far it seems to me that eight hours is about as much as a person can do daily before totally getting burned out.  I've seemed to find that at about the six hours mark... a person is done.  They've worked all they will comfortably... Six hours seems like a smarter point to stop rather than pushing to (and easily going over) the eight hour boundary point.

If we did work six hours a day commonly rather than eight, perhaps we'd have less things, perhaps we'd progress slower... perhaps... but do we really need the latest sound system, the newest greatest vehicle, the huge house.  These things are great to have, but are they worth pushing ourselves to a maximum tolerance level to have them.  Perhaps there are even better ways to obtain them than sacrificing our time, heath and mind.