I find that my productivity on each weekend hits its lowest point and I become lazy sleep in more than I should. I don't like it. The greater choice of things to do and more time to do them in makes me anxious and then I end up doing nothing, or very little. Weekends suck.
Does anyone else have a problem with weekends?
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Just wait 'til you're out of school ;)
Well I'm at a music school, doing a lot of composition.....weekends are all the more mundane.
Quote from: ComposerOfAvantGarde on April 03, 2016, 02:33:19 PM
Well I'm at a music school, doing a lot of composition.....weekends are all the more mundane.
Yeah, but you don't have a full-time M-F job.
Just you wait. ;D
Casual work in a call centre sucks apart from the pay. :)
And 7 hour shifts on Saturdays make me wish I were dead. Or at least, that all Saturdays could be blown to smithereens. :D
Count your blessings, not your misgivings about something that's become a drag in your life. I work a 40 hr. work week and only on my two days off (usually Sunday and Monday) or use some vacation days, can I really have any kind of life. Just my two cents.
Well, whether you believe in God or not, there are good reasons for taking one day of the week to rest. 8)
Quote from: jochanaan on April 03, 2016, 04:44:55 PM
Well, whether you believe in God or not, there are good reasons for taking one day of the week to rest. 8)
Any day of rest is a good day. ;)
Any day when I can make even a little music is a beautiful day.
Quote from: ComposerOfAvantGarde on April 03, 2016, 01:56:19 PM
I find that my productivity on each weekend hits its lowest point and I become lazy sleep in more than I should. I don't like it. The greater choice of things to do and more time to do them in makes me anxious and then I end up doing nothing, or very little. Weekends suck.
Does anyone else have a problem with weekends?
That's like saying you don't like sleeping because your productivity hits a low point during it. We all need to be recharged every once in a while, and weekends are a great opportunity to do something you love, and something different to what you get to do during the workweek. As for the vast choice of things, pick
something and try if you like it, and don't worry about missing out when enjoying Q means not having time for R.
Quote from: North Star on April 04, 2016, 05:29:48 AM
That's like saying you don't like sleeping because your productivity hits a low point during it. We all need to be recharged every once in a while, and weekends are a great opportunity to do something you love, and something different to what you get to do during the workweek. As for the vast choice of things, pick something and try if you like it, and don't worry about missing out when enjoying Q means not having time for R.
But everything I do during the week is stuff I love, I wish I could make the week my weekend as well otherwise it's just full of too much choice of how I can make my life lame crap.
Quote from: ComposerOfAvantGarde on April 04, 2016, 05:33:37 AM
But everything I do during the week is stuff I love, I wish I could make the week my weekend as well otherwise it's just full of too much choice of how I can make my life lame crap.
Just say 'no' to the lame crap then and do the stuff you love on the weekends as well, then. Just see that you fit some physical exercise and social activity in there.
Quote from: ComposerOfAvantGarde on April 04, 2016, 05:33:37 AM
But everything I do during the week is stuff I love, I wish I could make the week my weekend as well otherwise it's just full of too much choice of how I can make my life lame crap.
Sometimes we do things so that we do the other things we really want to do. You are lucky - 5 days a week you do stuff you love. Some people do zero or significantly less than five days. If you are doing stuff you love for 5 days per week, your life is not lame. Besides, this gives you some goals too, on how to change your life so that you are doing even more of what you want to do. Unless you become a multi-millionaire, there will always be stuff you don't want to do (and even then, there will always be something).
Quote from: ComposerOfAvantGarde on April 04, 2016, 05:33:37 AM
But everything I do during the week is stuff I love, I wish I could make the week my weekend as well otherwise it's just full of too much choice of how I can make my life lame crap.
I fear that if you did the things you like all the time they would eventually pall.
Quote from: mc ukrneal on April 04, 2016, 05:44:48 AM
Sometimes we do things so that we do the other things we really want to do. You are lucky - 5 days a week you do stuff you love. Some people do zero or significantly less than five days. If you are doing stuff you love for 5 days per week, your life is not lame. Besides, this gives you some goals too, on how to change your life so that you are doing even more of what you want to do. Unless you become a multi-millionaire, there will always be stuff you don't want to do (and even then, there will always be something).
Exactly. Do you think, Jessop, that like Wagner the world owes you a living? Sooner or later you're going to have to support yourself for the next 50 or so years, and that's going to mean a large percentage of your time doing things you may not want to do. See how you feel about weekends then. ::)
And it's probably not a bad idea to try to appreciate also things one doesn't love instantaneously. .
Its the whole thing I mean about choice.....choice of what to actually do on the weekend......it makes me anxious.
This thread sucks so....screw you guys, I'm going home
Quote from: ComposerOfAvantGarde on April 04, 2016, 06:34:49 AM
Its the whole thing I mean about choice.....choice of what to actually do on the weekend......it makes me anxious.
This is a bit of a different discussion. Why does it make you anxious? Is it because it is less structured? Is it a discipline question? Is it having to work and do things you don't like to do? OR is it something else? First you need to identify what makes you anxious. It's hard for me to understand, because having a big choice, in and of itself, is not something that ever made me anxious, so I'm trying to better understand the issue.
What is weekend anyway? Before I got struck down by illness, I worked almost exclusively on weekends, probably 30 odd times a year, flying somewhere to give a speech/lecture. Whenever someone ask "what day is today" I could never answer right away since, well, it hardly meant anything to me.
Quote from: ComposerOfAvantGarde on April 04, 2016, 06:34:49 AM
Its the whole thing I mean about choice.....choice of what to actually do on the weekend......it makes me anxious.
This thread sucks so....screw you guys, I'm going home
I see. Do you really think we're the problem here? We're just trying to give you some honest reactions.
Reminds me of this line from George Carlin: "Too many choices America! It's not healthy!"
Quote from: springrite on April 04, 2016, 07:07:19 AM
What is weekend anyway? Before I got struck down by illness, I worked almost exclusively on weekends, probably 30 odd times a year, flying somewhere to give a speech/lecture. Whenever someone ask "what day is today" I could never answer right away since, well, it hardly meant anything to me.
Do you mean that you were working most of your weekends too, or that you mostly worked on weekends,
Paul?
Quote from: North Star on April 04, 2016, 07:24:24 AM
Do you mean that you were working most of your weekends too, or that you mostly worked on weekends, Paul?
I worked almost exclusively on weekends only, about 30-35 weekends a year (but often just one day, not including travel time).
Quote from: springrite on April 04, 2016, 07:32:21 AM
I worked almost exclusively on weekends only, about 30-35 weekends a year (but often just one day, not including travel time).
Like a minister. :)
If you don't like the weekends you might enjoy 'A Sunday Afternoon at Home' by a famous British comedian Tony Hancock, who was especially big in the 1950s and early 60s (sadly he committed suicide in 1968). The humour is very British and relates to a time when Sundays were very different as most shops etc were shut.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NEnQ7cNoJaY