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?
When you do this long enough, not having to work for a few days is all the reward you need to make Friday exciting.
Hello, fellow oldhead!
Yes. It’s a shorter work day.
I’m glad I don’t gotta go to work, but that’s basically it.
My schedule usually changes every few months and it’s happened often enough now that any day feels like Friday if I don’t have to work the day after.
I’m pretty sure the way to cultivate it is to
More like, “oh, thank you for being Friday. I need the break.”
I work two jobs and have no days off but Friday is the start of not having to drive the next morning so yeah, in a way.
More of a happy it’s Saturday feeling.
The firm I work for has flex scheduling, so I get a half-day every Friday. (Could be a 4-10 if I wanted, but I don’t want to do a 4-10)
I get all my chores done by 3PM on Fridays and then the entire weekend is my oyster.
It’s glorious.
I used to get the Saturday equivalent, but with my anhedonia, even lounging feels like a chore.
I don’t think I’ve ever had a job with weekends off. Or even any other specific days consistently off from one week to the next, more generally. It does sound nice though, I think I’d like that.
Nah, I have kids, there are no weekends
Every day is a work day. Weekends vs weekdays are meaningless constructs.
Friday is our staff meeting, in which we get a free lunch for attending - so somewhat, yeah!
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.