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title: From 6am to 7pm until 67 / six-seven aka 6/7
date: 2026-08-19T11:23:00Z
modified: 2026-09-21T05:06:33Z
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excerpt: Six-seven aka 6/7 may be an internet meme without a meaning, but adults know exactly what it feels like to work from 6am to 7pm until retirement at 67.
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If you have a teenager at home, you probably know the expression “six-seven”. Or 6/7. If you’re wondering what it means, you’ve hit a dead end. Which is really the whole point. The expression 6/7 comes from the song “Doot Doot (6 7)” by American rapper Skrilla, then spread through clips of basketball player LaMelo Ball, who is six feet seven inches tall. Genius? Not really. Meaningful? Even less so. But since when has the internet needed meaning? It needs something that catches on, gets repeated and annoys adults enough to become interesting.

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And so 6/7 became an expression with no clear meaning, yet understood by everyone who uses it. Or at least they think they understand it. Dictionary.com even named it its word of the year for 2025, even though it isn’t a word, nor is it something with a definable meaning.

I think I’ve finally discovered what 6/7 really means. From six in the morning until seven in the evening. Until you’re 67. Or perhaps even longer.

That’s the adult version of the internet meme, and it isn’t funny any more. You get up at five to get ready for work, start at six, and at seven in the evening realise you’ve finally replied to the last email. Naturally, that’s only if you haven’t received an “email” from a colleague who just needs one tiny thing in the meantime. Then you go home, eat dinner, check what happened at work during those seventeen minutes when you weren’t looking at your phone, and fall asleep thinking everything will be calmer tomorrow.

It won’t be. The next day will be 6/7 all over again.

We used to believe technology would shorten our working hours. Computers were supposed to help us get things done faster. Email was supposed to simplify communication. Mobile phones were supposed to give us more freedom. Artificial intelligence was supposed to take over dull, repetitive tasks.

Instead, we got more work, more messages, more meetings and the expectation that we’d be available all the time. Because we can answer an email at ten in the evening, someone expects us to answer it at ten in the evening. Because we can work from home, we can work when we ought to be at home. Once, work ended when you left the office. Today, it ends when your battery runs out. And because we have chargers everywhere, work never really ends.

Then the state comes along and explains that, because we’re living longer, we’ll have to work longer too. Slovenia’s pension reform does retain 40 years of pensionable service, but the age threshold for those with at least 15 years of insurance service will gradually rise from 65 to 67. The change will take place between 2028 and 2035. Anyone who completes 40 years of pensionable service will be able to retire at 62 in 2035. So not all of us will automatically work until we’re 67, although the number fits very neatly with the new motto for life.

The problem, of course, isn’t just the number. The problem is the idea that a person can work at the same pace, under the same strain and with the same efficiency for decades. As though every job were the same. As though it made no difference whether you sit in an office, work on a building site, lift people in a care home, drive a lorry or stand at a conveyor belt for eight hours.

On paper, we’re all merely insured persons. In real life, some people have ruined backs, worn-out knees and bodies that have long been warning them that an Excel spreadsheet doesn’t understand biology by the time they’re 60.

Perhaps that’s why 6/7 is the perfect expression for our time. It means nothing to children, but it can mean everything to adults. Working from six until seven. A loan until you’re 67. Waiting for retirement until you’re 67. And in between, productivity, availability, optimisation and the obligatory question of why young people don’t want to live as we did. Perhaps because they can see where it leads. From six until seven. Until you’re 67.

6/7. At least now I know what it means.