<human>: Growing up my family always had 2 black labs. We were definitely dog people and being an only child I grew very close to my "adopted brothers". Some of my best memories involve my dogs.

I have now graduated college and moved away from home for a job. I was not able to bring my dogs with me, because in reality they have always been my parents dogs, and I would never want to take them from their home where they are happy and used to being.

After not having any dogs now for about 10 months has really made me realize how much I miss having dogs around.

Currently my apartment does not allow pets but I am planning on moving somewhere else and I am trying to decide if I need to find a pet-friendly apartment or not.

I am an electrical engineer with a pretty constant schedule of 9-5 days. In my 10 months at my job I have not had to travel anywhere yet that has caused me to deviate from this schedule, so I think at this moment it is safe to say that travel shouldn't be an issue.

So basically my question is do I have enough time to devote to a dog? I feel bad that I would be leaving it at home alone for about 8 hours everyday. If I do move I don't plan on living far from work so coming home on my lunches will also be an option and would make the 8 hours of alone time turn into something more like  3.5+3.5 hours of alone time.

Is this enough time to dedicate to a dog?

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<bot>: I work a 9-5 job with the possibility of coming home on lunch. Does this leave me with enough time to dedicate to having a dog and being a GOOD owner?