Back to work blahs

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Cathlete
Does anyone else get those back to work blahs that fill you with a bit of dread and/or anxiety about returning to work on Sunday night? Why I get this feeling I do not understand since I have a great job with great staff rarely upon my return to work are there any major problems to deal with. I try to plan things to look forward to during the week but sometimes I just can't overcome the sense of dread until I actually get myself to work and get going. This of course causes me to spend my Sunday nights in a funk or sorts. !@##@!
 
Does anyone else get those back to work blahs that fill you with a bit of dread and/or anxiety about returning to work on Sunday night? Why I get this feeling I do not understand since I have a great job with great staff rarely upon my return to work are there any major problems to deal with. I try to plan things to look forward to during the week but sometimes I just can't overcome the sense of dread until I actually get myself to work and get going. This of course causes me to spend my Sunday nights in a funk or sorts. !@##@!
 
Definitely!! Not only on Sunday nights, but anytime I have a little bit of time off and am enjoying myself. It's particularly bad for me during the summer--absolutely the last place I want to be in the summer is in an office, away from the sun and the outdoors. I find it really depressing to spend day after day behind a desk when the weather is gorgeous.

One thing that helps me with the Sunday blahs is spending early Sunday evening working out really hard--I find that by the time I'm done, I don't feel so blah anymore because I've done something for myself that I really love to do.

I also have a lot of problems coming back from vacation or even a long weekend--the dread process starts even a day or two before my last day, which kind of stinks. I don't have a cure for that yet--I get really blue when I'm having a great time outdoors and suddenly realize that on Monday (or whenever) I will be back behind a desk.

It's good that you like your job--maybe the dread is a leftover effect from the "back to school" blues when you were a kid? Me, I am particularly unhappy with my current job and also the direction my career has taken overall. Oh well.
 
Definitely!! Not only on Sunday nights, but anytime I have a little bit of time off and am enjoying myself. It's particularly bad for me during the summer--absolutely the last place I want to be in the summer is in an office, away from the sun and the outdoors. I find it really depressing to spend day after day behind a desk when the weather is gorgeous.

One thing that helps me with the Sunday blahs is spending early Sunday evening working out really hard--I find that by the time I'm done, I don't feel so blah anymore because I've done something for myself that I really love to do.

I also have a lot of problems coming back from vacation or even a long weekend--the dread process starts even a day or two before my last day, which kind of stinks. I don't have a cure for that yet--I get really blue when I'm having a great time outdoors and suddenly realize that on Monday (or whenever) I will be back behind a desk.

It's good that you like your job--maybe the dread is a leftover effect from the "back to school" blues when you were a kid? Me, I am particularly unhappy with my current job and also the direction my career has taken overall. Oh well.
 
I do the same thing as a vacation in winding down. It seems to such a drag to think abuot such things on vacation when we are supposed to come back feeling refreshed! I do try to steal sometime outdoors during the day to hear things like birds singing instead of copy machines, etc
 
Yes, I know that feeling well. I used to get it all the time when I had a 9 to 5 office job. My father used to call it the "heebee geebees." I don't know exactly what triggers it, but I don't get it anymore now that I have a job in a restaurant where my hours and days vary. I work at night sometimes, I work on week-ends sometimes, so I guess my schedule is off and I don't have that feeling anymore.
 

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