Consulting šŸŸ, where does your time go during a typical week? (non-holiday, non-vacation)? Below is my time allocation. Would like to benchmark with other šŸŽ£ Just looking for references, not cynicism.

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You gotta sleep more OP!

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I canā€™t imagine having as much free time as you do.

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I have zero ā€œfree timeā€. So it should not be hard to imagine ...šŸ˜€

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5.5 hours of sleep a night? Thatā€™s tough

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Once you have kids and work in consulting, 5.5hrs of sleep is a dream

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Pay more attention to your pet.

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Sorry to hear about your situation B2. Mine is a shadow dog

Thatā€™s sad. Make the orange zone smaller.

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Can attest, Booz Allen hours generally are awesome. Usually on client site from 7-4, M-Th, Friday remote, around 45-50 hour work weeks on average.
But naturally our pay tends to be a lot lower and work is less interesting than big 4 / MBB

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I'd have
Work (Inc commute): 60 hours
Sleep: 50 hours
Read: 15 hours
Eat/Cook: 12 hours
Workout: 5 hours
Waste time (TV): 10 hours
Other:.... whatever is left

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How do you classify working meal? 14 hours of meals a week, without working, feels long to me.

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Cooking a meal or two a day and three meals a day takes more time than you think, but this also includes any ā€œworking mealā€

OP - what books are you reading? (for leisure purposes)

Shocked. No friends/family time?

Donā€™t be shocked. There are not a lot of activities most people do without family or friends these days.

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