Does anyone have a really long day?

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I know this is all silly, and not likely to be true, but on tiktok there are lots of videos showing people's daily routine. They often start at 6am when they go off to work, and then after work, gym and they eventually get home at 8/9pm when they eat dinner.
I'd be a basket case if I did this. I did once have a life similar to this when I lived in a city but I'd do 2 nights like this, and I'd need a night at home before doing another two.
To be clear, I know Tiktok is all bollocks, but I find people's day to day routines really interesting, so do any of you have this type of really long day and hardly any time at home?

Absolutely not! I love being at home. Take my time to do things. Stuff that needs to be done gets done, and the stuff that doesn’t… doesn’t! I like and need a lot of calm in my life. I don’t like being busy or rushed off my feet.

I wfh so no 😁 I may have slept through my alarm this morning because everyone else was away. (Please note before anyone moans about wfhers being lazy, I still did all my hours today!) Planning to go to the gym some evenings, just joined one after a few years break. Can’t do early though.

DC or no DC makes a difference. I used to work in a job where I did long hours (usually until 7/8pm if not later) and then I'd go to the gym on the way home. I couldn't do that job anymore anyway because it doesn't fit with the logistics of having kids but I don't remember finding it as tiring as I find working part time and having young kids. I think it's because I had some time in the evenings and weekends to recharge whereas now I don't get that (kids are terrible sleepers).

Today I was up at 5.30am for the gym, in work for 8.30am, supermarket after work and home by 7pm. That's long enough for me and luckily I don't have this routine every day!

I did before I had children. I wouldn't have the time for it now unless I just didn't see them during the week and had a nanny to do dinner, baths and homework. I don't think I'd have the energy anymore either. I was always on the go when I was younger, I had no interest in relaxing at home but I love an evening on the couch now.

I would say they were fairly standard hours in my 20s when starting out in my career. These days I probably still do a similar amount of hours but that’s because family admin takes up so much time!

Yes I'm up at 6, get myself and 3 kids ready, leave at 7.45 to drop them all off at different schools, start work at 8.30 - 5pm, pick up kids, various after school activities, home for dinner, bath, bedtime is usually 8pm. By the time I've finished cleaning up, doing laundry and preparing for the next day it's often 9-10pm. I go to the gym on my lunch breaks when I'm wfh and go to a yoga class a couple of times a week. I'm pretty much running on fumes & caffeine.

I do a 15/16 hour day, which includes my commute. I used to do it 4x a week. Now I have a 1 & 2 year old and only do it once a week now. I can’t go straight to bed when I get in, need some time to wind down. It fucks me up for days afterwards

I used to have a very long day. Up at 6:30/6:45am latest, kids to school then to work for 8:15am start. Finish at 4:30pm, pick up from school at 5pm, home 15 mins later. Very quickly I had to prepare dinner for the kids and do any housework, have a quick shower and be out of the door to be at my second job at 7pm. If I was on an 8pm start (weekends), I would do bath and bedtime with the kids. I worked til midnight or 1am, depending on how busy it was. 15 mins to get home, not had time for any dinner myself I would crash in bed and hope to fall asleep quickly to give me 5 hours sleep if I were lucky.

When my parents were leaving the pub, I would get home from my shift and spend an hour or more uploading the photos and things people were giving to me to form part of their leaving presents. After they left, I stayed on there but I also started doing Avon as my third job.

I was physically & mentally exhausted and made myself very, very unwell eventually.

@JockTamsonsBairns Similar here, up at 05.00 and on the road by 06.30 for a commute of 90 mins in the car, 12.5 hour shift then home again three or four times a week...

Getting too old for this too, but like you seriously understaffed team... 🙄

When my dc were younger, my working day would often finish at 10. Another teacher.

I had a couple of years of 6am gym classes, then work. Then more work at home.

These days I leave the house at 7am. And, if it's a gym after work night, home by about 8.

I'm later side of 40s. Have more energy than younger, non exercising staff. But not sure whether this is inherent or that I have energy because I exercise.

Can't work until 10 anymore. But I don't need to now, because dc are teens and I can get straight to work when I get in, instead of watching the clock until they go to bed.

Sometimes I crash out at 930, sometimes later.

I got up at 6am to go to the gym for a pt session. Then I went to work. I worked till 4pm then had a doctors appointment and went home to finish work. I just finished now (10:50pm). I’ll be up at 5am tomorrow. I don’t often work in the evening but I regularly don’t get home from work till 7pm.

Im 58 and feel pretty good!

I’m always up by 7. On days I work, I start at 9ish and finish at 7pm or 8pm ish. Only work 5 mins away though which makes all the difference. Then stay up until 11ish although really should try for 10. Night night!

I used to before my health tanked and stopped me. Out the door at 7.30, two days a week leave the office at 5-6pm, home 7-7.30pm to put DD to bed, other three days work until 7/8pm in the office and home at 9pm ish. Every day I would start work again after dinner and work until about 11.30pm. It was brutal and I actually moved to live near the office to make it so I could at least do bedtime every night with my child. As a single parent though, I only had me to rely on financially, and didn’t feel I had much choice.

Up until a couple of years ago this was normal but not everyday. Out of the house by 7:15 , at work by 7:30! and finish around 6 on a good day but often closer to 7:30.
Have quick dinner twice a week and then take older children to clubs and pick them up again. Usually home for the night by 9:30.
All changed now. Carer to our youngest and eldest two usually get themselves to clubs. Days are just as long now but at least I do get to spend more time at home.

I do. Also a teacher. At work for 7.45, leave at 5.15, pick DD up from after school club, do homework, dinner, bedtime routine. Downstairs at 8.15, do a bit of housework, then usually schoolwork until 10 or 10.30. Sleep. Repeat.

I routinely am awake from 5am ish to 11pm ish with multiple wakes overnight. I don’t recommend it.

Same. Joys of a nocturnal disabled child and a full time job.

It’s not for me either. I work in a city and often think how absolutely shattered people look. I thought maybe it was too many nights out and too much wine, but maybe it’s the 6am - 9pm days relentlessly. Often super puffy under eyes, even on people my age and younger (30s). I am categorically not a city person though. More country bumpkin.

I used to but now I wfh 3 days a week. On my office days I leave the house at 6 and am usually home just after 7.30. Pre pandemic I'd leave the house by half 5 regularly and often home around 8. My kids are at secondary now and with that and wfh life is generally much more relaxed

I've been thinking about this recently. I'm 46 and getting to a point where I just can't take the pace anymore. I just can't afford a different lifestyle though.

For me, it's almost all work. Up at 5.45, leave house at 6.30. In work at 7.30. Leave around 5.30. Three days per week involve visiting/looking after elderly parents & in-laws after work. Home around 9pm - quick dinner in front of telly by 9.30 and bed at 11pm. Two days per week I'm home at 6.30pm and go to the gym (or, in the summer, when the nights are lighter, I go for a run). Dinner on table for 8.30ish.

At least once per week there will be a work crisis which has me there until 7-8pm which throws everything out of order.

I seem to be constantly bombarded with folk telling me I need a side-hustle (when???) or expressing disbelief that I haven't seen so many of the latest tv boxsets. I don't get enough sleep and am constantly shattered, I don't make the best food choices, and definitely do not see enough outside, natural light and fresh air.

Yes I do.
I get up at 6.30.
Sort out kids going to school.
Get some exercise in.
Start work
Work until 3
Then do school pick up
Sort out dinner
work from 6-9pm
Clean up kitchen etc
Chat to the teens
get ready for bed

I used to work 12 hour shifts & sometimes do a hobby in the evenings, so home at 10pm

Or

I used to work
9 to 5
Then a second job in the same building, but different department
6 to 10
Third job somewhere else, when not working the second job
6 to 10 or 11
I ate at work
Sunday off

My days are all very busy with multiple balls in the air. I'm in my 50s and I think we work much harder than the previous generation. I wonder if that's partly why we have so many people off work with mental health problems now. Life/work has become to busy and they can't 'keep up'

Pre-pandemic I did.
up at 5, shower, make-up and packs for anyone that needed one.. out the house by 5.45, commute, work, home most days by 6pm, make dinner, clear up etc, some nights would have gym class, aimed to be relaxing by 9.30.
now I WFH so not having the commute gave me 3hrs a day back and a half day on a Friday makes a huge difference