Topic: How is an ordinary person's week going in your country? - page 2. (Read 347 times)

9 to 5 job hours, 5 days a week, and outing/shopping/ booze on the weekend.

Those who live this life will never get out of this middle-class trap and if they want to then the first thing to do is to save some money and quit the job if the family can survive without your income or else start doing some side hustle while working on a regular job and remember when you work 9 to 5, you are actually giving efforts to make someone's life better not yours.

In most countries people who work in established companies, do the same 8 or 9 to 5 job routine every week day, I think that is the standard, the difference will be the salaries and job securities. Although in factory jobs The owners tends to exploit their workers who work longer ours for very poor salaries.

I'm self employed, I run a small business and I open shop by 8am and close by 8pm, Monday to Saturday, my business is not stressful, so I find time to do crypto stuff. I spend my Sunday with my family, we go to church in the morning and most afternoons we look for somewhere fun to visit, maybe a cool mall, the beach, visit family and friends, if we're expecting a visit from any of them, then we stay at home.

Most business people in the big cities in Nigeria, likes to hang out after business hours, you'd see a lot of beer and assorted meat and fish berbecue joints, some days I'd have a few drinks and chops with friends and take some home to wifey.

Due to the poor economy of my country and high inflation rate, you cannot work for 8hrs here, only if you own your own business. Time is money like they do say, I work two different kind of jobs to meet up with my monthly needs if not it wouldn't be possible for me to live the way I want. This is because my first job pays little and it was Luke a burden to me and this was why I had to look for a second one.

Imagine someone doing two jobs, you already have your timing and you must work with time. I go to the first one from 8am to 1pm and from 1:30pm to 7pm, before I can rest for the day. The civil servants are the  ones that work for 8hrs and currently, due to steady inflation, some of them salaries can no longer meet up with their needs and to also save.

In my country no resting for the average people , it is as if the more time you use in doing your business the more money you make. Here people don't take time for granted , and if it is possible for some people to work 24hours of the day they will make it. Working here is not easy because you have to be very strong to make money for living for yourself.  Having too much holiday is just like a waste because it can counted as a break to loose money.

Don't be sorry for that because most of us here aren't even native English speakers and you're a good one, believe us.

What company are you working for if you don't mind telling it? I have been dreaming of someday working for a company that's focused in cryptocurrencies. And working from home let everyone redeemed themselves from the hectic office schedules and daily commute and traffic.

Not that much difference as per OP and the others on how it goes here weekly.

In Ireland its similar to the OP

7 to 8 hour working day, Monday to Friday
2 x 15 minutes per day for tea break paid for by the employer ^{thats the law}
and 1 hour for lunch maximum

Standard 21 days per year holidays

Weekends start unofficially on Thursday ^{most peoples pay day} so the
young ones start partying

After the daily grind its dinner/exercise/TV

I live in Indonesia, the daily routine of ordinary person in my country are:

1. There's no vacation or holidays, you need to ask absence permission and you will not get paid if you absence.
2. Based on contract you're only work for 9 hours and 1 hour for lunch, but there's an unwritten rule that make you need to work for 12 hours, without getting extra payment.
3. Mostly you need to work for 6 days/week, but some company ask to work for 13 days with one day off/2 weeks.

The most interesting thing is, you wage might not meet the minimum amount wage even you're working very hard.

I manage a database and google cloud storage for a crypto company from home and in my free time I post on the forum to get some additional BTC. Since I work from home I get to spend time with my child. Wife has to drive to work and gets back in the afternoon. I usually sleep for as long as my daughter lets me. She usually wakes up at 8, but sometimes it's half past or even at 9. My wife leaves home at 9 because she usually starts her work at 9:30. We sometimes eat breakfast together, but if our daughter oversleeps wife eats alone and I make breakfast later for myself and my daughter.
Then I get do do the chores, dishes and stuff, and we drive to the store. Shopping with a kid can take over an hour, so it can be a pain. Then we drive home and I either take her for a walk, or we drive to a playground. There's also an indoor playground with a restaurant nearby, so we sometimes go there for lunch. After coming back home she watches cartoons and I get some time for myself (usually news and youtube on my phone with a coffee).
In the afternoon my wife gets back and takes over and I go to work, meaning I go upstairs and turn on the computer for about 6 hours. In the evening we have dinner, a bath for my daughter and get her ready for bed. Then, depending on how wife feels, we watch a movie or I go play counter strike with friends and then it's a quick shower and the day the day is over.


Your English is good and believe me, I've played some online games with Russians. Most of them will talk to you in Russian, not caring if you understand what they're saying or not.

I live in South Asian nation and especially the city while I live is traffic prone where we end up travelling 4 hours in a day to work and yeah it's the same working hour which is 8 hour working and 1 hour break, if we stay in the locality closer to work then we can have leisure time to spend with family but I stay like 15 miles away from my workplace so it's just wat, sleep,work and repeat during weekdays and during weekends we get to spend quality time with family.

The average life of an ordinary person here in my country is a little difficult but great. If there is work I wake up at 6am or 7am then work up to 12 pm. If there is no work available I wake up 10 am and just browse the internet all day or watch movies and tv series. Luckily I own a house now I don't worry about rent like before. But I have to feed my family of 8. The food is free or very cheap because we grow the food in our place and they are all fresh.

Work work work + sleep,  I work all night since I handle my own business,  I have a cap flits that I manage as my own business so this gives me the flexibility of time to attend to other things like family and holidays,  and since I am not directly involved in the driving of those vehicles I just take care of my managerial repsoibilrirh monitor things from afar and also trying to cope up with other remote assignments,  I don't do the 8 to 5 round the clock thing,  it doesn't work for me,  as I like spreading out my time.

The average person's day in the US typically starts with waking up, getting ready for work or school & commuting to their destination. Throughout the day they engage in various activities such as work, attending meetings/classes, taking breaks & having meals. After work or school they may participate in recreational activities, spend time with family or friends or run errands. Evenings often involve dinner, relaxation & pursuing personal interests. Finally they wind down, prepare for bed & get a good night's sleep to start the cycle again the next day.

Same as yours, OP. Just a few differences. I always spend my break for an hour and I work for the whole 8 hours. I dont bring my work at home so my rest is guaranteed when I get home and on weekends as well. On weekends, I spend time with my family. We watch movies, go to church, and I spend some time alone reading books. Nothing exciting tbh but I find it so recharging.

With your narration given, is this actually how you lived your life each day or just for this seasonal period of end of the year break, as a family man after work, you will choose a time for a hangout with the family maybe once or twice a week and then the remaining days you have time worth spending with them at home, the other case may be when you're on vacation, you're totally free of whatever plan you've come up with.

Well, not that unusual and I think your life is kinda chill. My usual weekend is too hectic honestly, since having a week that's mostly having a job and side lines. During the weekends, I also do the same as you, playing games, getting that much sleep and malling sometimes. This usually happens on a Saturday but during Sundays, it's like one of the days that I just need to take my time and don't have much thing to do so I stay.

IMO, your life there and with us and the other countries, there's not that much difference at all. We work 8+1 hours everyday and sometimes 6 days a week for the other countries but typically it should only be 5 days a week. With all of those breaks, paid vacations, paid leaves and holidays. The mere difference I think is the lifestyle of each of us and the cost of living.

First of all you have good English there is nothing to be sorry about!

I come from an asian country and i do think most people share the same day well at least for the working middle class i would not exactly know how the rich ones spend their day but in the class we belong in people usually wake up at 5am or 6am to get ready and travel to work or school sometimes people even wake up earlier than that if their home is far from their workplace or school because the transportation in our country is not the best and the traffic is a really huge problem that needs to be addressed

Work or school usually starts at 7am and then lunch happens at 12pm and most people usually end their day at 5pm and go home and maybe do other leisure activities when they are at home or maybe continue their work or school activities at home that is how typically a person in my country spend their day and this will just repeat the whole week

Currently, I am living in a Southeast Asian country (sorry for not being able to share the location more specifically), I have many friends here in many fields, and we have different habits always similar. I myself currently do not have a specific job, because I still just stay at home and occasionally travel locally and return to the house. Basically, I live without any constraints. There are days when I stay up at night and sleep during the day without paying attention to time. I also have long periods of stress and don't like to continue. Being in contact with many people, I like being closer to nature, which is why I decided to quit my job in the city to move to rural areas and even remote mountains and forests.

But I also know about a few basic living errors that still persist from before, mostly I see people (workers and students) waking up around 6 am and preparing to have breakfast to go to work at 7 am, around 11am everyone has time to rest, and then resume all activities at 1pm until 5pm. Prepare dinner and most people will finish it around 7pm, although depending on the family it might be watching the news or movies, or maybe going to bed early. I think that's the general schedule that most people use where I live. I'm the only exception because I don't like going to work and just stay at home reading books, listening to music, and painting .

I have always been interested in the way of life of residents of other countries. I'm an ordinary guy from Russia, I work as a finance director for an oilfield services company. We have a vacation 28 days a year. 7 holidays per year.
 My day usually starts with the fact that I wake up 1.5 hours before work, drink coffee, shave, do a nice hairstyle, wash up. After all this, I call a taxi and go to work. Work in our country is 8 hours and 1 hour for lunch, a total of 9 hours, but in our country, you usually eat in 15 minutes, and the rest of the time you work. After work, I sit and watch movies, TV series with my wife, or play PlayStation with friends online. On weekends, I usually get enough sleep, and my wife and I go for a walk, go to some restaurant, used to go hiking, but now we live where there are no places where you can go hiking.

And how is life in your country? If possible, write down your week

I apologize for the broken English