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What Americans Actually Do All Day Long - In Three Charts
The average American spends 9 hours, 12 minutes, and 36 seconds 'Working & Commuting' on an average workday. Wonder what they do with the rest of their precious 'unproductive and non-tax-providing' day?
Here's how the average American with a full-time job spends a typical workday...
... and here's how those hours of Leisure and Cooking-and-Cleaning breakdown...
and for those over 55 years old, things are a little more sleep and play...
Source: NPR
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All I see is a majority are muppet-sheeple!
"Education"..."6 Minutes"
Presented without any additional -- or required -- comment.
I would have thought about 6 seconds.
That would be the masturbatory time of the average Joe.
Something is wrong here. Most Americans get caught up on their sleep while at work and definitely 50% of them may as well be asleep during their commute.
I'd love to see the Chinese version of this chart. or the Somalian.
Is Tyler still dating that obese chick?
BREAKING NEWS:
BREAKING NEWS:
China and Germany will no longer do business in USD, Euros and Yuan preferred;
http://www.cnbc.com/id/48838061
So,... How come Tyler hasn't picked up on this?
Is he out with the (above mentioned) obese chick?
This must be bullish for the Yuan,... right.
Should I go out and buy a heap,...?????????
This must be bullish for the EUR/USD,... right.
Should I go out and buy a heap,...???????????
All I got to say is;
Who wrights this RNC shit, Except for that Clint Eastwood stuff, he was great as usual.
I mean really?
Hot crap! I can't wait 'till I get old!
Why were there so many empty seats up there at the upper right of the stage? Is it because they couldn't sell out the event?
Are they that bad that they couldn't even sell out the event and fill up all of the seats?
Even Madonna could sell out all of the seats.
Ug!
I'm sorry, I just had too;
http://i.imgur.com/sj4X7.jpg
The Dead Stream Media will no longer Prescribe their Version of Reality on the Sheeple Anymore!
Got That?
Actors and actresses have a lot of time on their hands to research the same things we do.
If any of you fucks post a comment, "I'm talking to myself again", Go fuck yourself.
These are talking points memos for media, and their free.
Reads on this thread so far over 14k. Pretty good.
Me 2. I could sure use a nap. Working in a Frankfurt bank takes a toll.
BKbroiler said:
Chinese citizenism version:
Blobbing up into Tibet: 2 hours
Anti-American ranting: 3 hours
Peoples Liberation Opium Parlour: 4 hours
Roadside crapping: 7 hours
Choir practice: 2 hours
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/225458/somalian-pirates-we
That would be the masturbatory time of the average Joe.
No way!! I can last at leas.. oops.
You thought this time was different he...
It's my dick and my soap and I can wash it as fast as I want.
Chuckle for the day. +1
So we can file Master Debater under education, right?
signed in just to upvote ya... haha. reminds me of that scene in American Beauty.
Don't worry, there won't be an exam on this later.
We wouldn't have the faculties to understand any additional comment anyway.
"Education"..."6 Minutes" aka 6 Minutes on Zerohedge!
Where's the chart for time spent stuffing their fat fucking faces and watching Dancing with Stars?
texting and facebook 99% of the time
that's the one that jumped out at me too.
Over an hour a day watching TV. 6 minutes educating ourselves.
where is the stressing out about how I'm going to make ends meet category?
Does grooming include animals?
Where's the drinking part?
The banging head against doorframe part?
People actually sleep for 7.5 hours? How?
Where's the "fighting with Windows 7" part?
Nobody fucks anymore? Or is that leisure....
This is a nightmare (if you can sleep...)
Thank you, and yes people still fuck. I can attest to that. She snores, and so does she. See you at Jhole.
Yes that was a funny!
(back to bed now, wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee)
Surprised porn didn't make the list. Oh wait this is the average american not the average SEC worker.
Everyone knows the Internet is for porn - even muppets!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-TA57L0kuc
Watching TV.
Nice. Supporting The Matrix, Hollywood and Baby Allah by being brainwashed by TV and Hollywood. Stupid serfs.
Facebook-Company created by douchbag for douchebags to practice douchebaggery.
credit-Vast-dom
Sleeping is overrated.
And you know damn well that in real life most of those circles overlap quite a bit like a a giant Venn diagram.
socializing and talking are overrated...
Where is 14 hours of watching markets?
"markets" whats that?
The average investor now spends 23,400,000 milliseconds per day watching markets.
Does programming HFT algos count?
No time to think about liberty or the insanity of modern life?
Wait...need to change the channel...
I can't wait to get home and do "Other". I'm usually done in about 9 minutes.
Some laxatives should greatly decrease your "other" time.
And then there's "etc" for all other places and times...
Them 55+ are some lazy worthless shits...here comes the death panels.
Some truth to that. Boomers ruined our country and economy. Gen Xers didn't realize that but the younger ones do.
Next they'll be blaming gen x, then gen y, then the echo boomers, then the teenagers, then the grade schoolers and babys. This is all our faults as adults for putting up with the bs, even though it started before us--it is certainly not ending with us----well not yet anyway.
Lets see what the top .01% who have all the money do all day!
Fuck over the other 99.99%
Trying to convince us - "Romney are people my friend!!"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2174738/The-King-Queen-Versaille...
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At home with the King and Queen of Versailles: America's biggest (and gaudiest) family home which still costs $65million even though it isn't finished
Owners David Siegel, 77, and his former beauty queen wife Jackie, 46, are the subjects of new documentary film Queen Of Versailles
Movie was to chronicle the building of the largest family home in the U.S.
It instead showed how the economic downturn forced them to stop building their dream home, a Las Vegas-style version of French palace Versailles
By Graham Smith
UPDATED:12:46 EST, 17 July 2012
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David and Jackie Siegel: Meet the King and Queen of Versailles
They lived the American dream and started to build their own palace. Then came the credit crunch...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/david-and-jackie-siegel...
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here the answer to the question but i can't even read it. let me know if there is anything in there that makes
one bit of sense. ( besides she is hot ).
I call bullshit on this chart. 8 mins, 24 sec on the internet? Bitchhhh pleaaase
"9 hours, 12 minutes, and 36 seconds 'Working & Commuting''
they fail to mention that 6 hours out of the 9 hours, 12 minutes, and 36 seconds is spent online doing mock fantasy drafts, reading TMZ/gawker, and "liking" stuff on facebook.
Uhh, you are, uhh, not going to mention ZeroHedge in there?!? I don't want to admit to anything, but there is some Venn like overlap for me with ZeroHedge and one of the large circles...
if that compnay is hiring, please pm the details. These days I'm doing my usual work plus the work of two former co-workers who were laid off. It's the new norm of the New World Order.
Yep, just get a job in sales somewhere. Yesterday, my GM issued a challenge for our store to do X amount of sales and every employee in the store would get a cash giftcard for a decent amount of money so I got busy knowing I could hit that number if I pushed a little. I hit that goal and had everything billed out by this morning. The GM was not too happy that I did it all by myself. He stated to me privately that "Now everyone else gets to benefit from your efforts.". Yeah, well this is 2012 Amerika so what else is new?
I read Zerohedge and other market sites most of the day today and got paid base salary.:-)
you sir; are a slave...
Slave? Yep. So are you.
I feel your pain. I'm up to doing four peoples' jobs now; and with less "benefits" to boot (shortened vacation time, down to three days a year now).
Here's to hoping my organic carden business takes off this year; if I can get through all the governmental roadblocks that is...
And 'jerking off' is nowhere to be found. I call bullshit as well.
My schedule :
Read ZH : 12 hours a day
Sleep : 10 hours a day
Pooping : 2 hours a day
You must be pretty loose to get all your pooping done in two hours.
Appears to be a well balanced lifestyle...may I suggest Metamucil ?
I would suggest he stop playing solitaire or angry birds on his phone.
Nice schedule.
I want to live with you! Please adopt me!!
I thought watching TV would make up a lot more of the time!
I thought watching TV would make up a lot more of the time!
It does... as I undertsand it from a direct study, the average American watches 154 hours per month.
I watch no TV whatsoever anymore ...the only thing i miss the TV is ....er.... ....umm.... let me get back to you on that one
The thing is Freddy drops the TV percentage immensly.
The last show I watched before I went TV-free was The Hill Street Blues.
I do wonder sometimes if that Lieutenant ever got together with that doctor woman...
I do wonder sometimes if that Lieutenant ever got together with that doctor woman...
It was the captain and the lawyer lady and it was all going fine until.. oops.
Guess I ain't average: I got no television. ;-)
Me = TV never.
Never, ever watch that garbage. I have tried but just can't do it. Amazing how many here at ZH say the same thing .......
yeh... many zhers dont watch TV anymore.....
and this is fantastic.... that means some people are getting out of the system.
spread the word, TURN OFF THE TV
The Matrix only needs 10 minutes to brainwash the sheep. The white hut non-muslim muslim good - whitey bad.
Stupid TV watching serfs.
1 hour and 34 minutes watching TV, 33 minutes shopping, and 34 minutes for child-care. Now I know why "it takes a village." The whole culture is starting to make sense now. Looks like your gonna need more money for "after school" programs.
It makes sense if you consider someone else is raising your kids at their minimum wage daycare job. GDP to the moon!
Yeah, I noticed that child-care number too. Crazy, crazy world we are living in.
I make it a point to set aside some time every day for sneering derision. Yep, it's what keeps me young.
Oh, yeah. Brilliant! Derision is stupid, and anybody who uses it is a jerk!
Both of you, Brilliant!!! :-)
I think some ZHers lost their sense of humore today.
Too funny!
ori
Relaxing and thinking 10 minutes? Most Americans don't spend that amount of time thinking in a week. They let everybody else think for them.
They meant 'masturbating', just a nicer way of saying it.
hahahahaah
not "They let everybody else think for them"
FIX: "They let the MSM think for them"
;)
Regards Arphy
Banging -2 minutes per day
Negative two minutes? You are like a super hero.
must not enjoy it much either
Negative two minutes? You are like a super hero.
Nope, it means he's finished before his wife even knows he start.. oops.
Good one! This one made me laugh!
He not busy being born is busy dying. - master Bob
"When you stop growing, you start rotting."
For those in the SEC/ Govt jobs include 7.5 hours watching Porn
And the remainder of their day is spent downloading porn, compiling it on discs, placing the discs neatly into assorted boxes, and stacking the boxes in an organized fashion around their office.
Unzip disks.
What else are we suppose to do when were strapped at our desks working, while on the other side of the world, the Europeans take 2 hour siestas in the middle of the day, lets see a graph of Europes daily acitivities .
amused to death.
People still watch TV?
i know, it's so old hat, like still rolling your own filo pastry!
still some people like their data in slo-mo, tedious crap masquerading as 'entertainment', the news in propaganda format and being patronised
it's so old hat, like still rolling your own filo pastry!
Hey, I never heard it called that! That's pret.. oops.
Craving tyropitas now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SoWNMNKNeM
This study snap shot is two years old. How did the figures tie into BLS U6 reporting?
http://portalseven.com/employment/unemployment_rate_u6.jsp?fromYear=2000&toYear=2012
Does my time reading ZH, TFMR etc... count as education. Cuz I do a lot of it.
You know things are slow when ZH runs a story like this...
I spend 25 hr/day reading made up statistics.
you're not a Steve Liesman groupie are you?
Thank God for multitasking!
what about yachting?
Romney party yacht 'Cracker Bay' flies Cayman Islands flag in Tampa
http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/258923.html
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kenyans don't yacht?
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There is a presidential yacht blindman. Of course we pay for it.
i suspected as much. good to know the
bills and taxes are being payed ! hey, have
you noticed how hilarious the world of political
rhetoric has become?
that was a rhetorical
question, device. please do not feel compelled
to respond if it is not essential.
Utter BS. No mention of porn.
time is/was/has been a funny thing.
did you ever think about that?
what u-is time? and can it be spent?
there ya go ......
sex: 30 seconds.
Porn: 7.5 hours (as per above commenter)
I thought Americans watched like 5 hours of TV a day?
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/feb/24/business/fi-tvwatching24
Nielsen's 'Three Screen Report' for the fourth quarter says the average American now watches more than 151 hours of TV a month.
I think this is just Monday-Friday, motherfuckers have their TVs on 20 hours per weekend, especially during football season!! That's 80 more hours a month, then this breakdown includes!!
they have to do something while eating crap food no?
:P
My wife watches a lot of TV (correction: sleeps while the TV is on)...
Curious ... it would be interesting to see "Working and Commuting" broken out into further detail.
NOTHING,NOTHING,nothing---,.
I didn't see porn on the list. Clear fail
What? Only 9 hours and 20 minutes working? Crack that whip and get their ass back into the acid mines for another shift!!!
Obviously the SEC was not included in the survey.
I would like to see the real breakdown for a workday in China. Not made up or as a joke but a real study. I would bet sleep averages 6 hours and work averages 14 hours including transportation.
I average 2.5 hours, per day, reading articles and studying the comments on ZeroHedge, and on a long enough time line I will understand what the fuck Slewie the pi-rat is talking about!
http://www.zerohedge.com/
If you are dependent on people who do not know you, who control the value of your necessities, you are not free, and you are not safe!
There is nothing more absurd, to give an example that is only apparently trivial, than the millions who wish to live in luxury and idleness and yet be slender, good looking and tan!
Wendell Berry,
The art of the commonplace
glad to see i am not the only one who doesnt get the pi-rat posts. but there is also a good chance i am an idiot. lol.
Reading Slewie's posts is like eating ice cream really fast. Gives a good headache for a short time but we can't stop, and we always want more.
"and on a long enough time line I will understand what the fuck Slewie the pi-rat is talking about! "
Not bloody likely!
8 minutes and 24 seconds on the internet?
I think FB's stock price has slightly more than 8.24 priced into it.
I think internet and porn browsing time are deeply buried somewhere in the "work and commute" time, especially for those in govt work
doppelganger
They forgot to include the amount of online porn by the SEC...that alone will at least triple the online/computer time.
I would love to see the charts for unemployed and underemployed people... probably a lot more sex and violence.
"probably a lot more sex and violence"
leisure category
....probably a lot more sex and violence.
The unemployed and underemployed probably combine the two.
BULLSHIT! To group WORK and COMMUTE in 1 category?
And the only talk on the phone or play computer games for a combined 11 mins total?
BLS is very misguided, and so are zerohedge commentors for engaging in a discussion of such bullshit information. Maybe this was a test to see who falls for BLS garbage- not me or Tyler or Biderman. Reset.
did you even read what zhers said about this article?
Does this schedule apply to us poor bums on Obamafare? I mean we don't have to work or drive unless we are going to collect on some freebee.
I was just laid off from my job. Since I am an old fart, I decided to just spend the rest of my days, trading the market and reading ZH. That takes from when I wake to after lunch. Then I go exercise and then test out my booze. After I pass out, I awake and have dinner then try to watch the garbage they have on TV. I finally give up and go to bed, dreaming about making a killing the next day in the stock market. Life is grand, right???
Exactly right Uncle Z, except, as an over 65er, I start the booze sooner.
As a half-assed trader, I figure the time on ZH gets split between working, leisure, education, games, being on computer, socializing, and relaxing and thinking, so it's all good.
Between BLS and NPR, these charts look like they were outsourced to Vietnam and somebody just decided to screw with the data, which had to be a bunch of lying-ass, made up and fudged seasonally adjusted garbage to start with. Eight fucking minutes on the internet? Right... Fuck, NOBODY spends 8 minutes on the internet, it takes that long for windows to boot up, and another 8 to shut down.
Ooooh... you best toss that computer in the trash. 8 minutes?? JHC, even Bill G doesn't take that long to take a shit.
On another note, your computer is choked with start up / shut down garbage. Too much to explain and this isn't a tech forum. But I do know what is wrong with your unit.
What does a problem with his unit have to do with his computer?
Fuck... I knew I would get busted for using the word "unit" as it does not pertain to the "unit" in question. I think...?
Linux solves a passle of PC problems...
Where's the column for reading ZH all day? Seems like that's about all I get done. :-)
hmmm ... is it really feasible for average American to be relaxing and thinking at the same time?