That honestly sounds pretty relatable for a lot of working people. In their “off time,” they’re doing housework, caring for their children, shopping for food, driving for uber, or making crafts to sell on etsy. Hell, my sister’s a teacher and she’s still got very little time to actually relax with two elementary aged children, teaching night and summer classes at a college as well as high school, and preserving food to sell it at local farmers markets. She’s most of the way to owning her modest house, and she doesn’t live an insane lifestyle, but she and her husband are both teachers and the cost of living is simply too high for them to cover their mortgage, gas, groceries, clothes for their kids, and utilities, while putting away for retirement and their kids’ college funds without them having to pick up extra work. The rest of their time is spent mostly on lesson preparation/corrections, housework, food preparation, and childcare.

It’s possible for some people to bypass a lot of that inconvenience with money, and some people can reduce their lifestyles to make ends meet with little money while keeping free time but a lot of people are performing some kind of labor most of the time.