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[00:00.63] Rory: So I was thinking about my current job.

[00:02.88] Abidemi: Uh-hmm.

[00:03.63] Rory: And I think like my work schedule is so good.

[00:06.13] Abidemi: Yeah.

[00:06.88] Rory: I work Monday and Tuesday, then I have a day off.

[00:11.13] Then I work Thursday and Friday, and then I have the weekend off. And I get five months holiday, yeah.

[00:17.88] Abidemi: Wow. Sign me up.

[00:19.13] Rory: So I mean, what’s a good work schedule for you?

[00:24.38] Abidemi: I think what you’ve just described sounds really good as well.

[00:27.88] When I was younger actually, I don’t know where this idea came from but my ideal work hours were 9:00 until 2:00.

[00:36.88] Rory: Okay.

[00:37.88] Abidemi: Not 9:00 until 5:00 like you usually hear in a lot of Western countries, but 9 o’clock to 2 o’clock.

[00:44.13] Rory: Right.

[00:45.88] Abidemi: I don’t know. So maybe for me, if I could do it, if I could find something like that,

[00:49.63] it would be really good because you can sleep in until maybe 7:00 or 8:00, go to work, finish at 2:00, still come back and have a good chunk of that day to do other things. So…

[01:02.13] Rory: Yeah. So my previous job was quite – I started at 9:30 and I finish at 12:30.

[01:06.88] I worked five days a week but it was great because work was finished by lunch time. I had the whole day free. And that was a good job.

[01:16.38] Abidemi: And you still got a full time salary?

[01:17.88] Rory: And that was a full-time salary, yeah.

[01:20.13] Abidemi: Wow. Sounds even better than this one, maybe.

[01:22.38] Rory: Yeah. In the past – I mean, I’ve worked in restaurants where you work only in the evenings.

[01:27.13] So I’d start at 5:30 and work until around midnight. I didn’t like that as much because all day, I was thinking, “I’ve got to go to work later.”

[01:38.38] So I think I prefer working in the morning and get it behind me as soon as possible.

[01:43.13] Abidemi: I think maybe I’m the same way as well. I prefer to get it down and then have the rest of the day to enjoy.

[01:48.63] Also, I had a job where I was working during the weekend. And I would have Mondays and Tuesdays off.

[01:57.13] And I didn’t really like that. I missed seeing friends on the weekend and then going out.

[02:02.13] So I don’t think I would like anything like that.

[02:05.13] How about not working? Do you think – how long do you think you could go without not having to work?

[02:09.13] Rory: Well, it’s funny because this job now I have really long vacations but I’m not happy when I’m not working.

[02:15.13] Like my wife gets very frustrated with me because if I have nothing to do, I tend to be a bit annoying around the house, just getting depressed, just arguing all the time.

[02:27.38] But I don’t need much work. Like if I could just do like an hour a day, I think that would be enough to make me happy.

[02:35.88] Abidemi: Okay. How long could you go would say? A week or two without having to touch work?

[02:40.88] Rory: I could probably go a couple of months.

[02:44.63] Abidemi: Okay. Without having to work at all.

[02:46.13] Rory: Yeah, if I have other things to do, you know.

[02:47.63] Abidemi: All right.

[02:48.13] Rory: So if I had other projects like if I was doing a lot of training for running or if I was studying, if I had a good book then I could probably go quite a long time.

[02:57.63] Abidemi: Yeah. I get pretty restless myself, too. I think after three, four days of not having anything to do, I just want – I really need something.

[03:07.13] Maybe, like you said study or learn or go out and do something, have a project, have a goal.

[03:13.13] I think, yeah, my personality type needs to constantly do something, produce. Yeah.

[03:18.88] Rory: Yeah. When I worked in Europe, I used to do – I used to teach for one or two weeks intensively, and then have three or four weeks off.

[03:27.13] And it was quite nice because I had lots of free time but after two or three weeks of free time, I was quite looking forward to the next block, the next block of teaching.

[03:37.38] But teaching these intensive blocks can be quite – it can be quite tough as well.

[03:43.13] Like I have to – I did a six-week block in Russia once, and after three weeks, I just wanted to go home.

[03:48.88] Six weeks was too long.

[03:49.88] Abidemi: Wow. I see.

[03:51.38] Abidemi: How intensive was it?

[03:52.63] Rory: Well, the job in Russia was really intensive because I was living with the students in a residential university.

[03:59.88] And so we had breakfast together and then I taught them from half past eight in the morning until half past six in the evening.

[04:06.63] Abidemi: Wow.

[04:07.13] Rory: We had lunch together, and then we had dinner together in the evening.

[04:10.63] Abidemi: Wow.

[04:11.38] Rory: And there was one bar in the university, and we all went to the same bar in the evening as well.

[04:17.13] Abidemi: And you had the same group of students?

[04:19.13] Rory: The same group of students.

[04:20.63] Abidemi: For six weeks?

[04:21.63] Rory: For six weeks and it was six days a week of teaching.

[04:23.13] Abidemi: Wow. I can – if you the teacher felt like that, I can only imagine how the students must have felt.

[04:28.38] They must have wanted a break badly.

[04:29.88] Rory: Yeah. We all wanted a break.