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!
That and the fact you can turn off the morning alarm!
Or just don’t turn it on that evening.
Nah, I have kids, there are no weekends
Was going to say this. The work week is easier than weekends.
Lol yeah, especially working from home
I work from home too. While it’s so so good, being so close to the family does mean I’m working full time + helping out with the family…
I’m glad I don’t gotta go to work, but that’s basically it.
Relief, not excitement
get a worse or more boring job.
You gotta plan stuff on your weekends. Give yourself something to look forward to.
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 see more people in my profession (programming) doing the four-day work week, but we’re still in an extreme minority. Outside of this field, it’s even worse. The liberal and conservative parties are actively pushing against it. Almost every day there’s an article where some rich CEO whines about young people being lazy. Added to that: Our aging population and a general lack of workers paired with aggressive anti-immigration politics - they also don’t help this cause.
So yeah, more people are doing it (especially in IT), which makes me hopeful. But I still don’t see it getting rolled out in a big fashion anytime soon, unfortunately. Especially because salary levels in Germany are already very low and not everyone can afford the loss of pay switching to a four-day work week.
I just know I’ll never go back. The amount of energy I gained by just having a day more to myself per week is extraordinary.
it’s more like relief, I get home and I instantly drop into bed all comfy knowing I’ll be snoozing late tomorrow.
Yes. It’s a shorter work day.
More like, “oh, thank you for being Friday. I need the break.”
Friday is our staff meeting, in which we get a free lunch for attending - so somewhat, yeah!
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 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.
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.
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.
