I work only weekends. Every saturday/sunday im at work. i really enjoy my job, and its peaceful due to it being the weekend. I don’t have kids, and i only drink on special occasions, so to me, the weekend is just another day.
But whenever i tell people i work every weekend, they are filled with pity for me and say they wouldnt dream of giving up their weekends. What do you think?
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I used to work 1 in 3 weekends and yes, I’d feel I missed out. Sure, I can chill by myself any other day of the week and it’s nice going shopping etc when it’s less busy, but meet-ups with friends, weddings, birthday parties etc usually happen at the weekend.
Now I work 1 in 6 weekends and it’s much easier to plan my social life!
Not at all.
I work in a hospital, so weekends on wards are generally quieter. During the week, we are constantly battling with admissions and discharges, along with every other Tom dick and harry who turn up.
Weekends, I actually feel like I’m doing my job instead of everyone else’s.
During the week, I get to do nice things when everywhere’s quieter 🙂
They wouldn’t dream of giving up their weekends if they worked all week. If they didn’t and had days off in the week like you did then I doubt they would make that comment.
The only time you might miss out by working a weekend is events and things like festivals etc tend to take place on a weekend, or if you had kids who and wanted to spend time with them
Used to work nearly every weekend and do maybe 1 in 4 weekends. Honestly I found I saved more money because I wasn’t going out on the weekend and during the week I was studying.
Now I have my weekends back I have a ritual to go out and have a pastry and coffee for £8 lmao. Plus I was shocked at how busy weekends are, like where did all these people come from!
the only miss out part is that most people work mon-fri so most events or occasions are centred around that
Honestly, now I’m older and go out less it wouldn’t bother me. I’m self employed and choose my working hours, so often I’d rather work weekends so I can chill when the world is quiet and everyone is at work.
It has swung back the other way since having kids as they are off on weekends so I like to spend time with them.
I work every Sunday and with it being understaffed, busiest day of the week with customers, it is awful. I don’t miss out on many social plans, but it sucks having the awful shifts.
Working weekends is a dream. All my friends work shifts too so we plan stuff during the week and work weekends because everywhere is quieter and restaurants/pubs/bars have mid week deals.
Shifts = fine with no kids. Once you have children then 9-5 is best. IMO.
It depends on who you know and their situations. I used to work weekends but I would meet my friends during the week and go out.
For me, I actually preferred it that way as it was quieter and I didn’t feel I was missing out.
Even Simple things like watching tv I could catch up during the week.
Technology did help as I could record or watch catchup tv and for food I could get supermarket deliveries, so I didn’t waste time trolling around at odd hours.
Going out was cheaper as there were more lunchtime deals From Monday to Thursday, so, I even saved a bit of cash.
When down the pub there would often be cheap beer days, for Wetherspoons it was a Monday and then maybe fish and chips in the way home.
Depends on the situation.
If I am asked to work a weekend, I am paid a week and half’s wage to do so because it is not normal for us.
We need an incentive to do so.
Depends. I used to work 4 on 4 off and it was great. Sometimes worked them sometimes not, being off in the week was great for space and less people around.
Now every 3rd week I have Thursday off, work the weekend, have Tuesday off.
Sucks
I’d prefer to work weekends. My neighbours in a block of flats are complete twunts. Always want to get away from them
I work in delivering goods and weekends are so much better for driving. I don’t have the social life of when I was in my 20s, so it’s a win win
People hate people and it’s getting worse so they probably don’t feel like it.
I used to work 8-8 and would go do things after work.
I have the opposite problem. I work 8-4 monday-friday but most of my friends work in pubs and bars so they’re always working Friday night when I fancy a drink and living it up on a Tuesday when I’m going to bed early for work
I’m fortunate that weekends are optional for the most part as I’m in construction, but I end up working most weekends for the extra money anyway. Don’t really feel like I’m missing out, I take the odd weekend off and go away somewhere to the countryside to unwind 🙂
I used to work 20 6 day weeks a year at my last job. The Saturdays were 7:30-3pm, so I still had time to make a weekend of it, and the extra money made it worthwhile. But I wouldn’t go back to it now and my wife’s grateful I don’t work as much.
I used to do shift work 2 in 5 weekends + overtime. Then kids came along now I do M-F flexible hours. Very happy with this
I work every weekend, my weekend is Tuesday and Wednesday.
It’s great during term time, I can go into town and it’s not as hectic as a real weekend.
Yeah especially between the ages of 16-24. I missed so many family meals and birthday parties due to working evenings and weekends. I was always a big football fan so leaving that industry (chef/bar) was great. I finally get to meet friends and attend events
Much prefer to have time off in the week tbh although I don’t. It’s Quitter, offers on in most places for food or drinks or whatever. I’m the same as you tbh I like a chilled life
Depends what your friend’s and partner does, when we all worked weekends it’s not an issue but when you’re the only one working it’s shit. I’ll never go back to working weekends now.
I did and it’s why I no longer work weekends and never will again. Most of my interests are sports based so not having free weekends meant not really seeing my mates etc
My partner prefers to work weekends. He has two days off during the week instead as his weekend. Less people to deal with if he’s got something to do.
Weekends are always too loud to enjoy time off.
I’ve recently started working Monday – Friday and miss having weekdays off. Quiet lunches, day trips on empty roads and rarely a need to book activities or attractions in advance. I didn’t appreciate it enough.
Nope, don’t have kids so don’t have that aspect to worry about…
Having days off during the week Is the best, everywhere is quieter, everywhere is open, less traffic, less people about.
I wouldn’t think too much into it tbh. If it’s people who work 9-5 Monday-Friday then yeah they will say that as they only get the weekend off. However your off during the week and only work weekends so you have plenty of work life balance. I work a shift basis and only get 1 weekend off a month. But I prefer it because like a lot of others have said it’s quieter working at the weekend and it’s quieter when you do stuff during the week
I used to work Wednesday to Sunday every week.
It was bad in some ways as I’d have less time with my wife, but nice in other’s as I could watch films or do house jobs.
When we had our first kid it meant I had two days with my daughter every week, but again we missed out on time all three of us together.
I now don’t work weekends, I miss my random days to just play games and watch films, but I love that I get more time with my family to actually go on days out together and I see my wife a lot more.
So it can work for some, and jot for others.
I think if I was single it wouldn’t bother me as it means I don’t have to battle through the crowds at the weekend, but as a husband/ dad I like having the weekends.
It was one of the reasons I became a stay at home wife. Husband was a junior doctor at the time and I was working full time Monday to Friday so weekends ended up being housework and chores or me on my own when he was working. We could afford for me to stop working, I was being “resturctured” into something I’d hate and we were moving house.
I worked weekends for 8 years. I loved the quieter times mid week while others people were working when I could do life admin – haircuts, dentist, GP appointments, food shop etc all so much better on a random Wednesday compared to trying to fit it around my Mon- Fri 9-5.
I used to work shifts and mostly weekends. Now I work Monday to Friday office hours.
Working shifts was better.
I work Sunday to Thursday, 5am to 2pm. I love my schedule. I work for an american company so I am working their night shift. I’m an early riser naturally, so that’s a win for me. I get Friday to do life things without having to fight crowds. Saturday I can spend with friends and fam or just chill at home. Sundays in my industry are mostly chill with the occasional day long disaster so I mostly play games, chat to colleagues and put the world to rights, listen to podcasts and do housework.
It’s the best schedule I’ve ever had and it’s totally worth going to bed at 9pm.
I actually hate going out on weekends, there’s too many people.
My work is flexible and I will happily ditch a weekend to have time off in the week. It’s much quieter and sometimes cheaper to do things during the week. Like I go to a local gym at around 3-4pm and I’m usually the only one in.
I work one weekend a month unless I do overtime and I’m currently on my weekend, I don’t like it, it always seems that big things I want to do, go to sporting events or shows etc are always on the weekend I’m working and it’s annoying, low holiday availability as they fill up fast too. The weekends are often slower as it’s less people and less calls but a day like this it’s not too bad but it’s periods of dullness, which is nice but it does mean you feel the minutes go by and when it’s a nice day out it’s just not the one
I work in a small kitchen, and I work every Saturday but get every Sunday off. The other full time cook plays footie on Saturdays and one of the part timers can only do Sundays.
I get the best of both worlds, work on a Saturday and off on Sundays. Means I can plan time with friends, or days out.
At this time it suits me
I think enjoy your life and don’t worry about what they think
Their entire life is their weekend and the four hours before bed time on a weekday
You have the weeks to go to stuff with less crowds and do things only the rich can typically do as they have the time off to be able to do it.
The only downside is missing out on some things when your normal 9-5 friends ask for weekend things and you can’t do it. But you can still book holidays in advance.
So enjoy it, live your life don’t let opinion pull you away from enjoying things.
I am curious op what your work is in though 🙂
It’s only ‘the weekend’ for them because they don’t work it. There’s nothing magic about those two days, it’s just that it’s their time off, and obviously they enjoy it.
Nah I don’t mind at all. I’m at work now, I usually go into the office because I’ve got the three screens and the coffee machine and nobody yelling “mum” up the stairs.
It’s quiet, I get my stuff done. I work 7-days-on, 7-days-off so it’s not every weekend, and it means I get week days to live.
I used to work weekends when I was younger. Varied between alternating weekend son and off, always doing Saturdays but not Sundays or doing one of the two days each weekend. I now work m-f 9-5.
It really depends on your friends and that invariably depends on your age. If you’re a teenager or early 20s, chances are most of your friends will also work random shifts and you’ll be able to meet up with somebody on a random weekday you both have off. As you get older, most people love to m-f 9-5 so it helps for you and your friends to all work that.
I didn’t mind working weekends when I was younger. I could go out cycling during a weekday when the roads were dead and cafes were quiet.
I only work Saturdays as my work place is closed Sundays and they alternate, I also finish at half 5 so it doesn’t really cut into plans if I wanted to go out in the evening.
At the moment though, I never have any plans because I’m just enjoying spending my time doing my own thing so it doesn’t bother me.
I used to work 2 weekends on, 2 off and I didn’t mind, but it was difficult if you had something on or if your friends had a spur of the moment bbq in the summer etc. I now work 1 in 4… again don’t mind and the weekends quiet so I get a lot done in work. As we all do 1 in 4 we are all pretty good at working extra or swapping if someone needs the weekend off so works well.. plus I get the mon -tues off which I love. Xxx
I work shifts, so anything from 4.30am til 00.30am, 5 days a week with a 4 day weekend every 4-5 weeks. I find I miss out on an awful lot of social occasions, guaranteed if there’s something on it’s either the weekend before or the weekend after the one I’m off.
Having said that, I do also enjoy having days off when it’s way quieter everywhere. Having every weekend off is a ballache when traffic & kids are piled high everywhere you go.
No, I work every second weekend.
Turns out, you can party any time.
My new job has me working a compressed work week of 4 days but can do it in 3 if I wish. My partner works freelance so it works. Have been working overtime most weekends so am used to it.
The ideal for me is Sunday Monday off. Best of both worlds. A day to plan and socialise and a day to chill and shop and do housework. It pushes me to take initiative and invite people over or out on a Sunday to avoid those pesky Saturdays. I like working Saturdays because it’s busy so the time flies.
I like working weekends. I don’t much like people, and working weekends means I have more free time on weekdays when there are fewer other humans around.
It’s been a while since I was working at our family supermarket. Evenings weekends Bank Holiday Xmas you name it. I missed live aid all my friends going out etc. I often felt sad I was missing out but I felt like I didn’t have a choice. Later years I had 2 restaurants at different times and worked the same and ruined a marriage. In the end my new wife made me take time off she made me learn to take time for myself. It was hard but I am glad I did it and wished I had done it sooner. Life is too short and I missed out on a lot.
I don’t work weekends, but I absolutely hate that my friend’s schedule is so different from the rest of our group’s. It’s a pain when we can only do weekends and they usually can’t, 3 out of 4 times they can’t come.
I drive a lprry on a rato, and always love the Friday night shift into a Saturday and Saturdya night shift into a Sunday. Barely anyone on the roads and I get to do my personal admin during the week, which is usually impossible unless you take some holodays on a Mon-Friday job.
I work in theatre so it’s all hours, evenings and weekends. Yes, I miss out on some things, family events and outings. I’m a Newcastle United fan and would have loved to watch the cup final and parade but couldn’t. On the other hand, when I am free everything’s usually quieter.
Any job i have had has always involved weekends. It has never bothered me – and when I was much younger it never once stopped me from going out on a Friday ir Saturday night. Sometimes both.
I actually enjoyed it as it meant that I had days off during the week. Sometimes one day off Sometimes 2 in a row. When 8 worked in care, one of the jobs I had I had 4 days in a row every month – Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
However most of my friends worked the Monday to Friday 9 to 5. Some just couldn’t fathom that people worked weekends and always assumed I would be off too. Always acted incredulous that I worked weekends – nobody works weekends they though. (I have zero idea what they thought the shop workers who served them on a shopping trip or the bar person who served them thier drink were doing!).
I never felt I missed out. Don’t really know what I’d miss to be fair. Very busy supermarkets and all those queues? A night out somewhere I really didn’t fancy going? Nope, that was bullets dodged rather than miss out. If there was something important that I really wanted to go to I could easily arrange time off or a swapped shift.
And days off midweek to enjoy quieter supermarkets/attend appointments/a trip out somewhere without the usual crowds – nothing can beat that feeling.
I would hate a 9 to 5 job.
What do you do mon – fri?
If I had the week free, I wouldn’t mind working at the weekend
I use to do Saturday and Sunday and it broke me all my friends were off to party or hang out and here I was bed by 9pm..
Never seeing anyone during the week as they was always working..
Now I have Sunday Monday off and it’s fine, that one day where everything happens BBQs football F1 hanging out Saturday nights.. it just feels better
I’m at work now on my break. I work 6a.m. -6p.m. Saturday and Sunday. It’s great. Almost full time wage for two days work when shift allowance added on. 5 days off and everywhere quiet when I’m off. It’s bliss!
Depends on your life I recon. I’d hate it as I have kids & obviously I’d miss out on spending time with them entirely. I’d also hate it if I had a partner who worked during the week, as you’d never spend time with them either..
But if you are single, then I probably wouldn’t care. Only downside I could see is missing out on socialising with friends, as most people tend to work during the week!
It depends on other people in your life.
When I was single it was great. I like my own company and used to enjoy going off and doing what I wanted at times when other people weren’t.
When I was in a relationship it was a bit of a pain as it’d be several weeks before I could hope for a mutual couple of days off, but otherwise perfectly fine.
When I had kids it became a massive pain and every weekend I worked I felt like I was missing out on time with them. I’m now very happy to be exclusively working weekdays.
Only when events and occasions are planned for weekends. But I rarely have that issue😂
For the main part I like having my days off mid-week… less people around when I go swimming or go into town and if I choose to go away for the night I would assume it’s cheaper than a night away at the weekend.
Haven’t had a weekend off for 12 years. Genuinely could not care less. I’m not a drinker/clubber so for me, the weekend is when i AVOID going out. Being off tues, wed and thurs means i can get all my shit done on a normal day.
Nope, neither me or my husband have a regular 9-5 job so the only day I ever pay attention to it being is Sunday just because of the shorter opening hours of the shops. Every other day is exactly the same to me, all my friends do shift work too so we’re just as likely to go out on a Wednesday night as a friday
I’ve been working weekends over the duration of 20 years since I was a teen, this counts for nights too.
As I got older, I didn’t mind because having my Monday and Tuesday off meant I could enjoy the world whilst everybody else was just starting their week,
It’s so nice to go out to a cafe and relax whilst the rest of the world is busy at it.
I used to work at least one day on a weekend every week for a long time, it never bothered me at all, but I have noticed that certain people are kind of weird about weekends, they are obviously very proud of working Mon-Fri? For some reason? They always pity you if you work weekends? Obviously it is a big deal for them, but it never affected me as much as them obviously. Like, also it would be people who just sit in a pub all day Saturday drinking beer, like is that what you need your weekend off every week? If you so smug about working Monday-Friday for some unknown reason, then maybe spend it a bit more interesting than that? But for each their own. I always thought my life was more interesting, rich and fulfilling even though I worked every weekend if compared to people who pitied me for that.
Now I have kids I would prefer to be off on a weekend, but still I wouldn’t mind that much to work some weekends and have break from kids, lol
Worked them all my life.
There’s nothing much worse than trying to get a pint in a packed out pub and having a groups chucking vodka red bulls down their throats
I work every second Saturday morning in a bank – it could be worse but it’s becoming a nightmare to schedule in advance, especially for events! I play a sport where games are weekends too and there’s often travel to these so it’s a bit of manoeuvring but it’s not impossible. coming into summer it takes a lot of goodwill with my coworkers to be willing to swap around though!
I don’t have kids and I’m in my 20s so I am very busy outside of work but it’s all fun stuff mainly that I’m focusing on 😅
the worst part is the actual working it – less staff, antsy customers, less time to deal with them and generally it’s a 6 day week because I get TOIL so claim it back. so it’s tiring and by the end I’m often losing the will while in it. But works quite well when I get random weekdays off
and in looking for other jobs the shift patterns are way worse. For now I’m willing to suffer this to protect my midweek evenings!
Chef so work every weekend and have Monday/Tuesday as my weekend. Love it, I can go out in the daytime without everywhere being full of parents and kids.
I used to work weekends — it didn’t bother me until my kids were school-age and I didn’t have a day off to spend with them.
I would love a weekend only job, if it paid the same as I earn in my standard 9-5.
Youd be able to go to events, holidays, etc during the week when it’s so much cheaper and quieter.
I have worked 4 on 4 off for 17 years and will continue to do so for as long as I can.
When I worked Monday to Friday it was also shifts, 6am to 2pm, 2pm to 10pm, 10pm to 6am, rotating around that each week. Which was ok but even though it feels like you get plenty of time each day to do stuff, in reality you don’t as you are either getting prepared to go to work or needing to go to bed early.
I done a few months of Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm and hated it, had no time to do anything at all during the week and trying to cram everything into a Saturday and Sunday was ridiculous.
Working 4 on 4 off did lead to missing some things that my friends had planned if I couldn’t book holiday, but it wasn’t too much of a big deal.
As I have got older my social life has become non-existent, which is a shame but also partly my own doing, so I never miss out on anything because I never get invited to anything.
I have worked weekends before and if I had no plans,it really didn’t bother me. It was only when friends were going out and I couldn’t that was a killer. So it really is just a social thing.
I work 3 out of 4 weekends with an occasional weekday and it’s not bad at all. Nice to do things in the week when it’s quieter. Always around for school runs and such, and the school holidays don’t hammer my annual leave.
I am self-employed and work from home. I am happy to do some work every day and structure my days as I please. There is absolutely nothing about working a conventional office hours job that I miss. I really dislike going out on weekends when everywhere is overcrowded. The vibes are often too tense for me. If I want to see my sister or go on a trip with her it always has to be weekends. We have to rush. Roads and transport are busy. It is hard to find somewhere to sit and have food or beer. Pain in the ass.
I work a lot of weekends but not every weekend and i do think i miss out sometimes cause things always seem to get planned for the weekend. But if there was anything i really did want to go to, i’m sure i’d be able to get it off.
I work every Saturday, yes I do feel like I miss out on a lot of social stuff
My husband makes more money working a weekend so that’s the norm now, we get another day off together instead and one each apart, which works well! “Weekends” as a specific pair of days stop being so important when you’re a bit older, I think.
I work Friday through Sunday…then have 4 days off.
4 day weekend ftw!
Previously worked weekends, it was great got loads of stuff done on my days off because less people around. Shopping, cinema, whatever. Now if I want to go shopping I have to remember shops shut at 4pm, all family friendly places are busy.
People are too dumb to wrap their around the fact you ONLY work weekends, and therefore have 5 days a week more free time than the average worker.
I got similar kind of comments/reactions when I used to work nights and told people I sleep during the day – people would think you were lazy sleeping all day, not able to comprehend that you are sleeping the same number of hours, just at a different time of day
During my university years, I worked every weekend for three years and actually enjoyed it. I didn’t feel like I was missing out on anything, and I was pretty good at planning time off when I needed it, especially for plans with friends or holidays.
I still work weekends now, one in four, and while it has its pros and cons, I’m older now, still single with no kids, so I don’t feel like I’m missing out. However, if my situation were different, I think I’d feel quite differently about it.
If you only weekend, you have a whole week off. Lucky you.
This is because weekends have been ingrained into people that weekends are the best nights out. I was the same as you, only worked weekends at one time.
But Ive had some brilliant week days nights out, and better than weekends as there arent as many people fighting or arguing. Or any sort of drama.
Just people wanting a good night with friends and have a laugh.
Absolutely not. Doing anything on the weekends makes me want to claw my eyes out.
Weekends are for middle lane hoggers and dawdling through national speed limit roads at 40MPH. Weekends are snapping at retail workers because you’ve got to deal with your own kids for 2 days and you can’t cope. Weekends are for absolute PEAK entitlement.
Not for all the money in the world would I want my days off with that lot.
I run my own business.
Choosing your weekend is a life hack.
Saturday and Sunday are the WORST.
You compete against everyone else to travel, shop and eat in restaurants.
The real downside is when trying to meet with people, or certain events which expect a 5 working day calendar, and so only really happen on the weekends.
I work every second Saturday. None of my family or friends work weekends. Sometimes I do feel like I’m missing out. I also hate revolving plans around what Saturday I’m off.
Nope. I hate weekends. I don’t like screaming kids and they’re everywhere. Most people are off work so everywhere is busy. Places are rammed. No such thing as a quiet afternoon drink in a country pub because every Tom dick and harry and their spawn are there. Shopping is atrocious.
I love being off on like a Wednesday. So quiet and peaceful everywhere. I can go where I want and enjoy the space and low volume. It’s excellent.
I used to work shifts over 7 days. Most of the time I would be working weekends or evenings. I felt that I missed out on a lot of occasions. Or I would turn up to the event after work and it would be almost over and everyone was drunk or thinking about leaving ( basically the fun had been had before my late arrival).
I find that for the most part there is a weekend Warrior mentality in the UK. People finish their work from home job early on a Friday afternoon, log off, fling their case or backpack into the car or camper van and away they go, getting back home around 7 or 8pm on Sunday evening. Then they are bright eyed and busy tailed to log onto their computer at home on Monday morning at 8.30 am or 9am to tell their remote colleagues all about the wonderful weekend they had with susie and jimmy.
Now I tend to work one weekend day and off the other day, with one week day off too. Which is a much better balance and feel I miss out on less events and occasions.
Nothing like getting up on a weekday knowing most people are off to work. Every pub , restaurant , place of interest is less manic than the weekend. And if you have a partner, a bit of time to yourself.
I work weekday evenings and weekend daytimes, I really don’t mind it! I prefer having slow mornings to myself and walking the dog when it’s quieter. I work for myself too in an industry that relies on getting people in after work so it’s the only time i can do really! Still wouldn’t change it to 9-5 though. I hated early mornings when I worked in a school, plus rush hour commuting. I miss all the traffic now!
If it works for you and your happy then enjoy it, iv worked weekends before and it didnt bother me, now i have a daughter and shes older i couldn’t go back to weekend work as id feel guilty and definitely feel like im missing out on time with her.
I feel like the pretty obvious answer is it depends on the patterns of the people you spend time with, friends, partner. My boyfriend and I used to do long (medium, really) distance and we’d spend weekends together. I used to point blank refuse to work retail weekends and eventually quit. If a partner’s days off line up or you’re not a big drinker/ don’t have many friends I think it’s probably easier. I do enjoy a day off midweek to run errands, I work about 1 in 6 Saturdays now.
Worked weekends for about 7 years when I worked in retail. To say I missed out was an understatement. I missed out on party’s, days out, engagement partys, weddings, bank holidays and plenty of sports activities with my friends.
I didn’t realise how much I missed out on until I finally left and had my weekends back to spend with friends and family instead of having to work until 8pm on a Saturday night.
No I like weekend working it means you have free time in the week and I can still go out after work 🤷♀️
I think it’s when someone’s life revolves around their day job that it matters more to them to have weekends off.
Having said that I do miss out on a lot of events I want to attend that are often on the day time at the weekend, but it’s not the biggest loss. And I can take annual leave too.. not sure there is a downside really!
I do Tuesday to Saturday. Now my son is at Uni it doesn’t matter when my ‘weekend’ is. I’ve got a barbecue coming up in London on a Saturday I could do with the Saturday off and looks like I might be denied it because other people are off so yeah it’s not ideal…
Not really. I work Monday to Friday and do every other weekend aswell at a second job. I also do cover shifts on weekends so I work most weekends. But I am more than happy to sit in the corner shop serving people. Otherwise I’d just be sat at home not earning money
I love working weekends – I always worked Saturdays, and when my work opened Sundays too I asked if I could work them. I don’t and never will have kids so I’m not missing out on family time, I’m not particularly social anyway and only one person in my friend group has a Monday to Friday job anyway so when we do socialise weekends aren’t generally when we do it, and I prefer being able to go out and do things when most people are in work/school.
What I wouldn’t give up though is two days off together, I’ve always insisted that I don’t care what days they are but they have to be consecutive.
I work one weekend a year and that weekend is this weekend. I hate it with a passion, but that’s just because I’ve gotten so used to a Monday-Friday and it’s out of my routine (had to miss lunch with my friends today)
Years ago I worked random days and preferred working over the weekend and having a couple of weekdays off as everything is a bit more chill and less kids in the weekdays. I still always aim to avoid taking leave in the school holidays, my boss thinks I’m really kind to let those with kids have the time off but honestly I just hate kids being everywhere.
I do the same!
Weekends are great when you have the rest of the week to do what the fuck you want!
I used to work in a cinema for 18 years. Evenings, weekends and full time in holidays. Weeks started on a Friday and the only day we closed was Xmas day.
I loved it. Never understood the fuss of a weekend or the Friday feeling. In fact I used to enjoy my weekdays off because everything else was quite or my holiday time was quite because it was out of season. I loved my job and never thought about it.
Until my son started school. And then everything changed. I gave up my job as general manager and became a stay at home parent and now I absolutely love weekends and I love school holidays. I probably get more excited for them than my son.
You do you and if life changes that’s fine. 😁
For the last 2 and a half years I have done university Monday to Friday, and worked every Saturday and Sunday. Before I started uni I was doing a science access course which was Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday with a lot of studying thrown in with it. I would then work my 37.5 hours in the hospital from Thursday through to Sunday. So I was 7 days a week at what felt like 100mph with no breaks.
I was also made homeless about 2/3 of the way through this course and finished the course off sleeping in my car.
I’ve had enough, I’ve had more than one mental breakdown. It constantly have things in life making things everything harder it seems, it’s one thing after another and I’m so close to giving up. I’ll stick with it, but I want out.
I have a 5 year old son that I simply don’t get to see as much as I’d like. Today he wanted to go and play some.football but I’ve only just got home and he will be going to bed in about an hour and a half. I’m literally watching him eat his food now and then I will start getting him ready.
i miss having days off in the week, i hate how busy the weekends are anywhere you go
Never worked weekends but used to do late/early shifts. Getting home at 23:30 on a Friday night made planning stuff impossible and then I’d go back to earlies on the Monday so couldn’t do much on Sunday evenings (or weekday evenings). While not major, not working “normal” hours definitely had an impact on my social life
When I was 18-21 I worked every other weekend and hated it because socialising seems to be really important at that age, but now at 34 it wouldn’t bother me so much, and I haven’t worked a weekend in over 10 years