Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad I don’t have to go to work for a few days. But I don’t quite get the same excitement for the weekend that I used to. I hope that you do! If so, how do you cultivate that feeling?
Every day is a work day. Weekends vs weekdays are meaningless constructs.
I just continually dread existence, with temporary times where I’m unable to cope with it
Yes, but it’s actually an “It’s Thursday!” feeling.
The four day work week is amazing.
I see you’re from Germany (or at least on a German instance). Is the four-day work week becoming common there and throughout Europe?
As I live in the US, I’ll probably die before something like that is implemented here.
Germany is and always will be the last country to roll out any sweeping change. The people enjoying a four-day week are those who work in the US-based companies, limited to a select few.
I used to get the Saturday equivalent, but with my anhedonia, even lounging feels like a chore.
get a worse or more boring job.
Relief, not excitement
No, because after a Friday half the time comes the dreaded 13 hour shift which sucks my energy enough to not be able to do anything on Sunday.
Healthcare is a bitch sometimes.
I’m pretty sure the way to cultivate it is to
You gotta plan stuff on your weekends. Give yourself something to look forward to.
I am usually exited to go back to work on Monday. However I look forward to two days of no meetings (just my timeline), waking up whenever I want and having brakfast at 10/11 or playing video games all day long.
So not excitement but just a general happiness.
Friday is our staff meeting, in which we get a free lunch for attending - so somewhat, yeah!
I used to work on weekends so Friday had lost its luster. But I’m at a different job now and all my weekends are off again, so yes, I love Fridays. Even if sometimes I have homework or projects to work on since I’ve gone back to school (I’m in my 40s), I still look forward to having a couple of days to sleep in and mostly do nothing.
Not really, but I will once spring weather rolls around. During the winter I just sit around all weekend wishing it was summer. I’ve been meaning to take up some winter sports, but it’s expensive to get into a new hobby, and I’m old enough that I’m probably going to get injured and then old enough that it’ll take forever to recover, so I’m not super motivated to start skiing. Maybe snowshoes will be okay, but I still need to buy a bunch of gear to do it and not be miserable.
I like my job, I don’t particularly look forward to the weekends relative to the week. Often I find long weekends are too long unless I have some major project for them and I start thinking about how I’m going to tackle work problems.
Not since I’ve started working from home.
