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I get the point, but this is a bit self defeatist.
First of all, 1hr seems a bit excessive for showering and getting dressed, that's like 30 minutes tops for me, I could maybe see an hour if I'm going to a black tie event and I've been doing yardwork all day. If it takes an entire hour to get showered and dressed every single day, personal grooming and wardrobe is one of your hobbies.
Then that 1hr commute can be audiobooks, hobby podcasts, music discovery, etc. With public transportation, it can be physical books, chatting with friends, researching new things, or anything you can do from your phone. You can even knock out some of that mindless scrolling early.
Personally, my "mindless" scrolling is through platforms that I've curated for content relevant to my hobbies and interests. So it doesn't really stay mindless for long, it starts to hit those fulfilling notes. And most of the jobs I've had have had lulls in that 8hr block where I could not-so-mindlessly scroll here and there.
Also 1hr unpaid overtime every day? Um what? They specified wagie so not salaried, anon has a slam dunk labor rights case.
So we found 30min in the morning, those 2hrs of commute are usable, say another 30min of scrolling at work (probably higher, but I'm assuming a more demanding job to be conservative), and fuck off 1hr unpaid work. That's an extra 4hrs of potentially fulfilling time if you use it.
Like yeah, wagie life is draining, don't get me wrong. But you have the power to reclaim some of that.
If I am not intentionally hurrying up, getting some caffeine into me, waiting for it to kick in, showering, dressing, and performing all these little maintenance things a body needs to continue functioning and look presentable takes about an hour, yes.
Yeah, sure, but: that is still 1h spent doing things to distract you from an environment you don't want to be in
Edit: apparently my first sentence was not clear enough: Sure, I could hurry up. But I don't want to. I enjoy not having to hurry every waking moment of my life. Making, drinking and enjoying a coffee is one of those things that keep me from ending up in a padded cell.
For my own routine, I shower and get dressed first, then breakfast after. I don’t take morning coffee but that would go with breakfast if so. And then while eating I’ll usually have a show on which makes it like partially leisure time. And it gives me some time to fully wake up.