John Wetmore reflects on how a 40-hour workweek doesn't account for what actually counts as work. In 2014-2015, he realized he was miscounting non-core activities like training and organizing as work hours, when his real core work—meetings, calls, recruiting—took up far less time.
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100% of people say 40 hours. The math don't add up to 40 hours. And I had to accept that for myself in, you know, 2014 rolling into 2015 is when I figured it out. You know, I just had to be honest with myself, dude. And I used to count a lot of stuff as work that wasn't really work. And the best way I can try to articulate it is like when I was, when I was working full-time in my mid-20s, trying to figure out what the heck I was gonna do with my life. One part of the journey. I went to school, went to college. I still had to work 40 hours at a job and then do additional work and study and training to get better at life, at business, at my career. And I think so many people want to incorporate all the crap into the 40 hours instead of doing 40 hours of like seeing people and being on the phones, whether appointments or recruiting, and then in addition doing all the other stuff, training and organizing stuff and getting better at your profession.