A haunting statistic

Typically that feeling doesn’t finish if you graduate. For a lot of, life post-college means the standard 9-to-5 grind, the place all many people look ahead to is the weekend. 

And for a lot of, even a weekend is a privilege. In 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics discovered that 27% of single job holders and 58% of a number of job holders labored on the weekends. 

Whereas a number of that may be attributed to the kind of job (meals service, retail, and many others.), further reporting from the Nationwide Bureau of Financial Analysis discovered that People are inclined to work longer weeks and extra weekends generally than different developed nations.

Take into consideration that. Many U.S. job holders don’t even take a full weekend. 

This isn’t to tut-tut at anybody who works like this. Taking break day is a privilege. All of us have our personal monetary conditions, and generally you’ll want to do it to be able to get by. Typically you simply like doing it. 

However at IWT, we needed to deconstruct the concept of “working for the weekend” and see if we may design a distinct type of workweek, one that offers us extra focus after we are at work and extra relaxation exterior of it.

How IWT spends its time off

At IWT, we’ve been speaking about freedom for over 15 years, like beginning a enterprise that permits you to set your individual schedule, touchdown a dream job that offers you autonomy and suppleness, and getting your funds so as so as to dwell life precisely that approach you need.

In some ways, the 4DWW is an extension of those values. 

All through the Problem, the staff has been asking ourselves, “What’s our Wealthy Life? What do we wish our ideally suited day or week to appear to be? And may a 4DWW assist us get there?” 

In different phrases, we’ve been embracing intentionality. That’s what the 4DWW Problem is about. We wish to see how we may be intentional about the way in which we work—and the way in which we relaxation.

That’s why I wish to share among the ways in which a couple of IWT staff have been spending their time on their days off. 

One factor you’ll discover: We’re as intentional with our time off as we’re with how we work. IWT staff are extremely pushed, in any case. We all know that after we wish to get one thing carried out, we have to actually take into account one of the best methods to go about it earlier than we even take the primary steps.

Even the methods we spend our weekends.

“The additional time to hang around collectively has been wonderful” 

“For those who’re accustomed to Chicago visitors, you understand what a nightmare it’s to go wherever on a weekend. I take advantage of my additional weekend day to run errands whereas most individuals are working. It makes getting across the metropolis simpler and it often means the grocery shops, and many others., are a lot much less crowded. 

“Coincidentally, my sister can be off on Fridays now and we’ve been doing issues collectively, which has been a number of enjoyable. Buying, pedicures, lunch. The additional time to hang around collectively has been wonderful. 

“I’m additionally presently recovering from surgical procedure and was capable of schedule my physician appointments on Fridays. That’s been extraordinarily useful as a result of I don’t have to fret about juggling my schedule to suit appointments in throughout work hours (that at all times stresses me out).”–Jessica Rossetti, Scholar Success Specialist

“My son and I’ve grow to be nearer than we ever have been”

“The 4DWW that we have now been testing out this summer time has been priceless to me.

“Since being recognized with most cancers earlier this yr, and going by way of surgical procedure to have it eliminated, I’ve a completely new outlook on life. I understand that each minute counts and I attempt to spend as lots of them as I can with my household.

“I take advantage of the additional time off every week to spend with my son, one-on-one, simply the 2 of us. Because it is sort of a ‘bonus day,’ I by no means really feel responsible as if I’m utilizing up my PTO or dropping pay to spend the day on actions that to some appear frivolous. 

“The truth that I can spend a complete day with my son doing every thing from swimming, going to the films, procuring, or having one in all our random ‘Left, Proper, Heart’ days has been one thing that I wouldn’t commerce for the world.  

“My son and I’ve grow to be nearer than we ever have been and discovered a lot extra about one another than we ever would have with out nowadays spent collectively.

“My additional day is spent making reminiscences!”

–Rosanna Armbrust, Senior Scholar Success Specialist