I have seen a bunch of posts on LinkedIn about the “weekend hustle”: using your leisure time to do more work. Not convinced that is a good idea.
There is another trend: people who schedule their leisure time like it’s work, and they record themselves! That’s work on top of work that should be leisure! It’s all described in this article in The Atlantic, The Logic of the ‘9 to 5’ Is Creeping Into the Rest of the Day.
This paragraph stuck with me:
This is the trap of leisure in a culture fixated on work. Anything done consciously or subconsciously for the sake of recovering from or balancing out work is not entirely free from labor—even if it’s genuinely relaxing and enjoyable. When you take a bath to unwind from a stressful shift or get into crafting to offset all the screen time you have at your job, when you go to bed early so you’ll have energy for work the next day or wake up early to meditate and calm yourself before a commute, your rest is at least partly in service of your work.
Time off from work might also be work.
