How Dumping TV Allowed Me to Quit My Job
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How Dumping TV Allowed Me to Quit My Job
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#2I don't know about anybody else, but there are only one or two shows that I can handle watching - I don't think I could watch more than 2 or 3 hours a week total, let alone in one day.
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#3I'm actually getting rid of my TV when I move. It's not worth the cost, plus 90% of what I watch is on Hulu the next day anyway. I've also thought about buying a Slingbox and hooking it up to my parents cable if I really miss some shows that aren't on Hulu. There are some amazing gems of entertainment on TV but the ridiculous cost is what bothers me ($42 for basic cable, WTF comcast).
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#4I don't know about anybody else, but there are only one or two shows that I can handle watching - I don't think I could watch more than 2 or 3 hours a week total , let alone in one day.
Same. I might watch an hour of television combined in a week unless they're something specific I want to see. And that's rare these days.
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#5> Decide on any exempt shows: There may be few shows that you feel are educational and want to encourage yourself and your other family members to watch.
That's exactly what I have done. Family Guy is exempt, Seinfeld is exempt if it's one I haven't seen before (I'm new to the US, so I still have that occasional joy)
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#6This is probably great for him, I rarely watch TV anymore, but I still watch a lot of series on DVD and such. However, in the space of 60 minutes, I can (for example) watch 3 episodes of The Simpsons or Futurama, not the 2 I'd get on TV.
I probably still watch the equivalent of about 3 hours of TV a day, just it's compacted into 2 hours. The other hour I can read a book, and a lot of the time I leave shows running on my media server just for some background noise.
I hate radio DJ's, so quite young I picked up the habit of using TV not radio as a tool for background noise. It's probably a bad habit, but I find in residential areas (I grew up in the quiet of the country) I get highly distracted by noises outside.
It is a compelling argument that if you dropped the 3+ hours of TV a day, you could make an extra $10K on minimum wage (here in Canada it would be about $16K on minimum wage). However, this advice might work great for one person, however if everyone in the country suddenly decided to cover 30+ hours a week of extra work, it would probably further collapse the economy. There's not enough jobs to go around the people we have already, if people suddenly double their hours then lots of people would likely loose their job.
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#7> Decide on any exempt shows: There may be few shows that you feel are educational and want to encourage yourself and your other family members to watch. That's exactly what I have done. Family Guy is exempt, Seinfeld is exempt if it's one I haven't seen before (I'm new to the US, so I still have that occasional joy)
I only watch shows that are exempt, I do this by watching solely on an off-cable medium. Not having the advertising helps to see more shows in less time.
All movies are exempt for me, however again I usually only watch DVD's. I came from the UK where TV always shows complete episodes, not the syndicated crap, and movies aren't cut and edited to death. I believe when I first came to Canada most stations still cropped the picture in movies, I never even knew anyone did that, because on a PAL set the quality is high enough to keep the letter box format, so the switch to NTSC cemented the death of TV.
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#8I'm actually getting rid of my TV when I move. It's not worth the cost, plus 90% of what I watch is on Hulu the next day anyway. I've also thought about buying a Slingbox and hooking it up to my parents cable if I really miss some shows that aren't on Hulu. There are some amazing gems of entertainment on TV but the ridiculous cost is what bothers me ($42 for basic cable, WTF comcast).
>I'm actually getting rid of my TV when I move.
I highly recommend this. I've been watching my 'exempt' shows on my laptop for over a year. I'm not quite sure if i will ever have a TV again.
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#9For me, TV is the opiate of the masses that numbs my brain after a long day quicker than booze, god, or exercise. Replacing it with a second job is about as likely as giving up weekends and vacations.
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#10This is probably great for him, I rarely watch TV anymore, but I still watch a lot of series on DVD and such. However, in the space of 60 minutes, I can (for example) watch 3 episodes of The Simpsons or Futurama, not the 2 I'd get on TV. I probably still watch the equivalent of about 3 hours of TV a day, just it's compacted into 2 hours. The other hour I can read a book, and a lot of the time I leave shows running on…
>There's not enough jobs to go around the people we have already, if people suddenly double their hours then lots of people would likely loose their job.
There is not a fixed amount of work to do. If the author of this article just watched TV instead of creating the blog network that he did, he wouldn't have put anyone out of a job.