20 year winning micro/low stakes rec/hobby
pokerstars player who doesn't grind daily.
The perfect schedule to me is Thursday-Sundays doesn't matter if you play cash or MTT's that's when the majority are online playing. I include Thursday because Thursday afternoon here has some good MTT's and because well Thursday is most peoples pay day the real fish and degenerates can't wait to get home from work deposit and play. The early bird gets the best fish early while they got the most money in their pockets.
I'd then between Monday-Wednesday take 2 days in a row completely off and away from the tables. That leaves 1 day for study and hand reviews. If I wanted an extra day off I'd likely skip Thursdays. That'd be 3 days playing, 3 days off and 1 for studying and hand reviews. Find a good balance that works for you so you don't burnout, get sick of playing, don't need long breaks from poker and helps your control tilt.
Another thing I do is target the bigger series Pokerstars puts on yearly. In those I personally target mid-higher stake MTT's rather then the daily/weekly micro/low stake MTT's I play normally.
Now somewhere in there is the perfect schedule for you. Anyone with family, job and real life going on can't keep such a perfect schedule as I lined out above of course. But that's how I built my schedule and keep it that way as much as possible. I even go as far as to know exactly what MTT's are available that favor my style of play and what time they start each day Thursdays-Sundays.
EDIT: Another thing you wanna do is at least get good at double tabling when you play even if it has to be 1 cash and 1 MTT table. This likely be something you gotta work on and build up too cause at first it will likely feel like there's a lot going on, you're being rushed specially if you play mainly 6 max tables and you gotta keep the strategy on each table straight. Which isn't as hard as you'd think just takes a bit of practice and experience. I play full-ring tables mainly and once you get use to double tabling it's really good and personally helps keep me from getting bored and outta tougher spots with marginal
hands that I play when I get bored.
Cheers!!!