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?
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.
This so much. I have a three days a week home Office deal, and I did Not, We, Fr for some time and it sucked. Monday I just could not find a proper start for the workday, which in the end translated to doing more work in the evening. Same on fridays, where I just did not find a proper cut to end the work day. So bad it even went into Saturday mornings. Now I do Tu-Th as home Office days, which works amazingly.
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.
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.
Usually yes but not lately because I’ve been having to work most weekends. I haven’t had a weekend off in a few months. Just finished working a few hours ago actually. But I’m blessed to be in a well paying job and im getting great experience. Gotta make hay while the sun is shining.
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.
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