But Actually It's Even Less...

Let's take the math a bit further:

At 45 – you have 262,800 remaining hours

• But you have to sleep, subtract 87,600 hours
• And you have to eat, subtract 32,850 hours
• You commute, subtract 15,000 hours
• You work, subtract 67,500
• You watch television (on average 2 hours per day), subtract another 21,900 hours
• You shop, run errands, do yard work (1 hour per day), subtract 10,950

Your net hours left, if you keep using your hours in the same fashion (and how many of us are being encouraged to keep working until we die?), are:

27,000

Hmmm, that's not very much...

Now chances are, you might take more holidays in there somewhere, but many of you will put in more (sometimes much more!) than 9 hours a day at the office. You probably won't work until 85, but there are lots of messages out there promoting the idea of putting off one's retirement until a later date. If you have children, the hours you spend on errands could be much greater. And the amount of TV you watch could be lower or much, much higher that what is estimated here. It's a fairly simple calculation, do it for yourself, what are your net hours?

And is that number that you have left, considering you started with 750,000, enough?