Estimate

I estimate that if I that I have about 71632 hours of work left in my lifetime, if I work for the state until I retire. That figure assumes that I work 21 days a month (we work 20 to 22 day, according to the pay calendar) and I take ten days off each year for vacation and/or sick leave. That's a total of 2984.6667 days, or 8.1716 years, of work left until I retire.

If I add in my lunch hour (which, if I were given the choice, which I'm not, I'd rather work through) and the maximum amount of travel time I want to spend getting to/from work the figure is 89540 hours, which is 3730.8333 days, or 10.2145 years.

Of course, all this assumes that my retirement age will be the same then as it is now.

I figure that between now and retirement, after subtracting average sleep time and the amount of time spent doing work related crap and an hour a day for reading, I have 106416.625 hours (4434.0261 days, or 12.1480 years) to accomplish... something.

How can 12 years seem like so much and so little at the same time?