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>What time do you get home from work?

Depends on the job. Office jobs are nominally 9-5 but it's easy for employees to stay until 7pm or so in some places. Retail shops (anything from butchers and grocery places to supermarkets and shoe shops and electronics shops) close at 8-8:30pm (they usually open around 9am or a little later) -- but those have shifts too (e.g. those working there don't stay all day from 9am to 8:30pm, unless they're the owners).

Some places (usually the self-run ones) also close around 2:30/3:00pm and open again at 5:30pm or so.

>That sounds like an unreasonably long day if you have to be in work by 8am but you're still at a restaurant at 11pm.

Not "still at the restaurant at 11pm" - it's first sitting down at the restaurant at 11pm (they'd leave at 12:30 - 1am or so). They I guess you sleep for 6-7 hours or so and wake at 7 or 8.




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