Sometimes it's not that I want to stay up late, but that I have little free time except late at night. Qi is a post-90s clerk in an advertising company in Beijing. She said that she usually goes to bed after 1 every morning, and usually watches a movie from 10 to 12 at night.
Nowadays, more and more post-90s people have developed the habit of staying up late, even being called "revenge staying up late" by the media. Some people stay up late because of study or work, but there are many people who stay up late is not important.
Lack of personal control time
"At 7 o'clock every day, I go out at 7: 30. At this time, the subway has been restricted. It takes more than ten minutes to get into the station. Go to work at 9 o'clock at last, get off work at about 7 or 8 o'clock, eat something on the way, get home at about 10, and wash yourself. It is basically 1 1. " Peng Jiajia works as an administrator in a training institution in Beijing. "The premise of this timetable is not to work overtime today."
After returning to the sharing room to wash, Peng Jiajia usually watches some social networking sites, official WeChat accounts and short videos to kill time. Moreover, she found that it was not only herself who stayed up late. At this time, in the WeChat circle of friends, classmates and friends are still chatting enthusiastically, especially those who are not married. "Everyone wants to get back the time occupied during the day. Sometimes I feel that only these two hours are my own and I can't bear to sleep. " Peng Jiajia always tells herself to go to bed early tonight. "Set yourself a deadline of 12: 30, and it will pass before you know it, so the deadline becomes 1,1:30 ..."
According to the Survey Report on Beijing Residents' Time Utilization released by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Statistics in April this year, the average working time of employed people is 8 hours and 54 minutes per day, exceeding the national regulation of 8 hours, while the commuting time is 1 hour and 29 minutes, and the working time on rest days is 7 hours and 42 minutes.
In fact, in a person's day, besides work and commuting, the most time-consuming and inevitable thing is physiological needs. Statistics show that the average physiological necessary time of Beijing residents is 12 hours 10 minute, including sleep, personal health care and dining. In addition, the per capita housework time of residents in the city is 1 hour and 24 minutes.
In other words, except for working hours, transportation time, physiological time and housework time, there is very little personal rest time left for the employed. "Working hours and traffic time are beyond my control, and housework can also be saved. For example, order takeout without buying food, cooking and washing dishes. The rest of the time, I can only squeeze to sleep. " Sometimes Peng Jiajia thinks that staying up late is just a kind of revenge compensation for not having personal control time during the day, but if there is no personal control time, she feels like a machine.
Inevitable family responsibilities
Wang Siyu, who was just promoted to father last year, found that he and his wife had not gone out to see a movie for a whole year. "Sometimes it is a luxury for two people to secretly watch an animation for 25 minutes at home." Apart from work and transportation, there are also families that occupy Wang Siyu's time. According to statistics from Beijing Municipal Bureau of Statistics, the average household housework time of residents in the city last year was 2 hours and 52 minutes. In addition to normal housework, housework also includes time to take care of children and the elderly, as well as the necessary time to buy goods or services, which also takes up a considerable amount of time.
"My wife and I are both only children. Four old people in the family have retired, and their health is getting worse every day. I will go to any big or small event. " Wang Siyu found that even such a small matter as paying the fee should be done by himself. "Old people are too old to walk and will not pay by mobile phone. I can only help them in the past. " Taking care of the children also takes up his time. He spends 10 hours in the company every day, 3 hours on the road, and is busy with housework at home. Sometimes, when his wife and children are asleep, Wang Siyu will sit in front of the computer and silently stay up late to brush the webpage. "There is no purpose, just want to see the world." Sometimes when his wife gets up in the middle of the night, she will let him drive the light in the bedroom to watch the computer, but he can't bear it. "I'd rather my eyes were worse than disturb my wife's sleep. She is more tired. "
Wang Siyu once discussed with his peers why he took up so much time to take care of the elderly and children that his free time was only late at night. In his impression, his parents' generation is not like this. Later, everyone calculated an account and worked out a result. "The parents' generation can basically guarantee not to work overtime for 8 hours a day, and many people live in the unit compound, and there is no commuting time and canteen. This day saved at least three or four hours. " What worries him even more is, "In the past, I got married early and had children early. When I was born, my grandparents were in their early fifties and were in good health. Now that the child is born, both parents are over 60 years old. As soon as we get married, our generation is faced with great family support pressure. "