I only get Christmas Day and New Year's Day off this year. Have to work every day in between. Would love to have all those days off.
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Anyone else not a fan of long holiday and just want to get back to work soon?
- Thread starter texhnolyze
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I kind of like having something else to do during the day that isn't about me. But sometimes I'd rather just stay home, so I'm a bit conflicted about it.
I sort of get where you're coming from, OP. For me it's less about actively wanting to go back to work, and more about wanting to get back into a routine and return to normality.
yeah, I told everyone I went back to work yesterday so I could have an off day to myself lmao
jesus christ, are you me ?! ..i really feel the same way, i took off four weeks of work because i have / had to many hours so i was forced to take some free time ..i'm off untill the 6th of Januari, it just feels like i can't wait to go back to work
nah, just hate that saying. There are going to be so many things to regret on our death bed, working wont be top 10.
Say I took two weeks off from work, there comes a put during the period (usually just after the halfway point) where I genuinely feel recharged and ready to go back to work. I get curious about the task I left and what the office got up to while I was away. I'm grateful that I don't have to deal with it (especially at the start of the holiday period) but I reach a point where doing nothing or laying around by the pool/TV becomes boring in itself and I want to mentally and physically challenge myself again. Thank goodness I get a lot of holidays in my job so I can feel sufficiently rested from work.
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I probably worded that part wrong. I simply don't treat going to movies as my priority spending, as I'd rather spend them on games or others. I regularly spend $1k each year for video games, and I only go to movies like once a month, even less nowadays. And if you read my OP and previous posts, I do take vacations and I can afford them, but not at long public holidays like right now because it's not fun at all.
Hell naw. I want to work the absolute minimum and I can't really fathom how anyone could think different.
In my twenties I was making over 6 figures (in Texas), but part of it was having to work nights and weekends. I missed so much of my kids young lives because of it. In this day and age, I'd imagine my situation was not unique. So yeah, it's up there.
My response will be very strange given my actual circumstances. But apart from that, hell no. Give me holidays.
I see what your saying I did the same working oil fields, but if I had been on my death bed then I certainly would have regretted spending so much time online and wished I had worked even more to leave a larger nest egg for my family.
I'm doing everything I can to get some more days off since my work is still having shifts, just smaller shorter ones.
So no, please bring more long holidays. It refreshes me for the rest of the year.
So no, please bring more long holidays. It refreshes me for the rest of the year.
When I worked in academia we'd get fuckin 13 days off on Wednesday Christmas/New Years, and I'd often take the previous Monday and Following Friday off to turn it into like ~18 consecutive days off. Now-a-days in corporate I get Christmas Day, New Years Day, and a half day on Christmas eve. Sucks ass. Got paid dick back then but that vacation was amazing. It was also good because everybody was on vacation so no work got done, like you didn't come back to being swamped or missng something (or the phenomenon when someone asks you to work on something and you say you're on vacation next week but will get to it, and then your first day back they're asking for a status update... and you're like "Status Update: Get fucked asshole").
Get a hobby. What's wrong with you, op? I'd fucking KILL to be off till the 2nd.
I realize this is maybe harder as you get older, but the "Get hobbies" thing refers to active hobbies, not sitting on the couch hobbies.
Astronomy club, draw, golf, nature walk, book club. Hobbies where you start "projects" and thus more off time for work results in "Awesome, time to work on stuff" and not "When do I go back to work?"
Astronomy club, draw, golf, nature walk, book club. Hobbies where you start "projects" and thus more off time for work results in "Awesome, time to work on stuff" and not "When do I go back to work?"
Yeah, but only this year because:
a) I love my job
b) I had an accident this year and spent most of the summer working from home
Really appreciated the routine after a long stretch of not being able to go too far.
a) I love my job
b) I had an accident this year and spent most of the summer working from home
Really appreciated the routine after a long stretch of not being able to go too far.
This is the first year I've been forced into taking annual leave until the new year. I'm a fan of long holidays but I'd rather just have the bank holidays off at xmas and work the other days, then use my A/L at a time that suits me more.
Still, better than that than having a job that requires xmas day working or not having a decent amount of A/L.
Still, better than that than having a job that requires xmas day working or not having a decent amount of A/L.
