Back to Work Blues

[Trudes]

Lucky for me I have a whole other week off before returning to work, but I do suffer from the Back to Work Blues. If you don't know what they are, then you probably love your job and have never suffered from it.
It's when you've had a couple of weeks off work and you go back to work all nice and relaxed and the first day is hell, you wish you were still on holiday. The second day is much like the first but you start thinking how much you dislike your job and thinking that you should choose a different career, third day you're checking the Situations Vacant ads!
This usually takes about 1-2 weeks to get over and then you're back to the mundane normality.
Who else suffers from the Blues and what do you do about it?

[Duke girl]

I think a huge majority suffer from the back to work Blues as being on holiday and doing what u want when you want is such a awesome and very enjoyable feeling and 1 we all wish we could feel week after week but it doesn't bring in the money like working does.
I guess those out there that do enjoy their jobs probably wouldn't know how it feels as much as those who dislike the job they do. If only we all had a neverending money tree how bliss life would be.

[oldrider]

When you get to my age, you will suffer from the back to hollidays blues! :eek:

Life gets tedious don't it! :sleep:

Happy new year Trudes. :wari: Cheers, John.

[MsKABC]

I suffered from it when I was teaching in 05. My beloved dog died at the beginning of the April holidays that year and it was the straw that broke the camel's back. I resigned on the second day back at school, didn't even have another job to go to! :shit: Now being a stay at home mum, I never get a holiday so I don't suffer from "back to work" blues :laugh:

[Smokin]

Yeah, I head back to work on monday, Kind of puts a damper on your last couple of days off. :(

[vifferman]

I'm feeling pretty shitty today - the "back to work blues" AND not yet recovered from jet lag. I was feeling quite enthusiastic about 2009 - all sorts of stuff I decided to do, things I decided to not do, that sort of thing - but I hadn't reckoned on how much work sucks the will to live out of me.
Plus I realised this morning the reason I didn't seem to have much to do was because there was shitloads of stuff I hadn't completed before I went on vacation. :Oops: Now I'm scurrying to catch up...

Yesterday it was announced that despite 2008 being the best financial year EVER for our company, and record sales in November, because our new (Mrkn) parent company isn't doing so well, there's a salary freeze for 2009. :eek5:
This after a pretty good personal annual review, following a "we want to bump your salary up to the middle of the next band, and will do so if you do these (easy) things". So, the company's investing in expansionist activities this year, but not in its staff.

[Trudes]

Sounds like the blues are fairly common. I guess we should just be thankful that we have a job to go back to, I suspect there's a lot of people on unwanted holidays out there who have no job to go back to this year. :( I'll be reminding myself of this fact on the 20th when I return to work.

[Number One]

I certainly suffer it...today was to be my third day back :shutup:

Actually I'm not feeling well and haven't slept for the last two nights but shit do I suffer them Back to work blues....

BTW Trudes - one more week till you go back? SHUTUP! :lol:

[Colapop]

Are you supposed to wait until the 3rd day before you surf the situations vacant???

[yungatart]

After doing without any pay for what amounts to six weeks between pays, I'm bloody grateful to get back to work.....

[Sparrowhawk]

I haven't had my holidays yet (taking the last 2 weeks in Jan), and I've already got them!!

I think I'm just a bit over my job (in the banking industry, pretty tough right now). I love working on engines, so I've toyed with chucking it all in & becoming Auckland's oldest mechanical apprentice (I'm 28), but I just can't afford the salary drop :(

[Hawkeye]

What's a holiday? I only had the stat day's off and worked right through.:(

Oh Yes! that's right. It's what I will be doing starting the 16th. 3 weeks holiday followed by a 4th week on a training course. 4 weeks out of the office - can't wait. :sunny:
Probably have the hoilday blues at the end of Feb.

[riffer]

Huh.

Lucky you. I was supposed to be off from 24/12 til 5/1.

Got "asked" to work hols on 24/12.

Best way to avoid the back to work blues I reckon is to not holiday. <_<

[mattian]

Yup.... I've got it bad. I showed up to work on Wednesday all mopey then realised we were still closed !!!Felt elated ! jumped on the bike and just kept going........... don't have to start till Thursday(today) ! then when I woke up this morning called in sick...... I just thought that I was a miserable bastard, now that I know it is an actual syndrome I might go to my doctor :mellow:

[FJRider]

I seem to be the only one that likes their job. Good pay, mostly 8 till 5. Company vehicle to run round in. Quite a bit of travel around the area. Christchurch south really. Taken a lot of hard work and a few years to get there. Maybe there's the key. Take out either one of those...

[Number One]

now that I know it is an actual syndrome I might go to my doctor :mellow:
Wonder what drugs they give out for this affliction :sherlock:

[vifferman]

I seem to be the only one that likes their job.
My job's actually good (well paid, good conditions, good company, etc.) It's me that's the problem (I get bored easily, and there's little variety).

[Number One]

I seem to be the only one that likes their job.

I do love my job I just hate having to end my holiday time.

[jrandom]

... you probably love your job and have never suffered from it.

Guilty as charged.

Sometimes I do wonder why so many people work in occupations that they appear to loathe.

But then I meet all the teenagers (and even twenty-somethings) who don't have the foggiest clue what they'd actually like to be doing, and it comes as less of a surprise.

Would I be correct in guessing that most folk suffering the Back to Work Blues stopped dreaming about What They Wanted To Be When They Grew Up (tm) before they left primary school?

[vifferman]

Would I be correct in guessing that most folk suffering the Back to Work Blues stopped dreaming about What They Wanted To Be When They Grew Up (tm) before they left primary school?
I dunno at what point that happened, but it was before I left school. I've never planned a career, or even really thought much further ahead than the weekend. Add to that some really dumb moves (6 years studying for a degree I've never used; taking a massive pay cut AND stepping out of a management position I loved, in order to work in the "IT industry"), and it's a wonder I'm not unemployed/unemployable.
However, the biggest thing (apart from abandoning my dreams) is that I made the mistake of thinking that I'd get more job satisfaction if I stopped being a "jack of all trades" and specialised, when in fact my specialty WAS multitasking, and having to do a multitude of different tasks kept me from getting bored.

[Maha]

My back to work blues wont start till Early Feb, well, I am back at work this week but whats ghetting me through it is, come sunday, we will be setting up camp for two weeks about 45 mins north here at the beach :rockon:

Here is a view from our camp site...tide is out :argh:

[Dooly]

Back to work Monday, and kinda looking forward to it.
Getting a bit bored now.

[Str8 Jacket]

Yep, im so depressed by the thought of going to work on Monday that I chucked Malcolms bike of its side stand onto the gorund.....

[NZsarge]

This usually takes about 1-2 weeks to get over and then you're back to the mundane normality.
Who else suffers from the Blues and what do you do about it?

'Bout the same for me, normally in a shit house mood for the first week or two.
What do I do about it?
Personally I just errrm... work through it..

[NZsarge]

come sunday, we will be setting up camp for two weeks about 45 mins north here at the beach :rockon:



You suck!!! :niceone:

[Maha]

You suck!!! :niceone:

Cold Cold beer yes? but thats after an hour in the surf and then I switch the top shelf after dark...:whistle:
Repeat daily for two weeks. Doctors orders. :doctor:

[NZsarge]

Cold Cold beer yes? but thats after an hour in the surf and then I switch the top shelf after dark...:whistle:
Repeat daily for two weeks. Doctors orders. :doctor:

:pinch: I repeat, you suck! So does Monie, Meanie and the Yod's, they are 3/4 the way through an excursion down the south island all the while stay in constant contact about how good the roads are and what a wonderful time they're having... It's cruel I tell ya! :laugh:

[Tank]

How did I beat the back to work blues??

I booked a 14 day bike tour of the South Island starting in:

56 days, 21 hours, 38 minutes and 23 seconds until Friday, 6 March 2009 at 12:00:00 Noon (Auckland time)

[vifferman]

Here is a view from our camp site...
Here's one of my holiday snaps... dunno if the tide is in or out.
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/%7Ecam4/GG.JPG

[Maha]

Here's one of my holiday snaps... dunno if the tide is in or out.


Hell of a place to park a tent, was the road noise a bother?....:(
Tide looks way in to me....:2thumbsup

[vifferman]

Hell of a place to park a tent, was the road noise a bother?....
Those cars are only very tiny y'know. I think they were driven by ants...

[Lias]

I'm definitly "over" being back at work after 3 days but its just manifesting itself as doign fuckall work rather than wanting to quit. The payrise that kicked in on the 1st of Jan may have something to do with that however lol!

[vifferman]

The payrise that kicked in on the 1st of Jan may have something to do with that however lol!
Payrise?!?
You lucky lucky lucky lucky lucky lucky lucky lucky lucky [gasp] lucky lucky lucky lucky bastidge!

I thought (and we were told) that when our company was bought out by the Megalithic Mrkn Monster it would make no real difference. However (but!) first they messed with our email ("No sarcasm!" "Email will be randomly monitored!" "All email will go through our server in Noo Yawk!" [which lasted until we rebelled at having 20% email functionality and insisted on reverting to our own server]), then they sconed our Xmas do (no, they didn't make scones for us, just canceled it because of the poor people in Lower Bumphuk who they had to lay off so their execs could still get their 7 figure salaries), now they aren't rewarding our excellent performance because someone (their execs?) might go "Waaah!!" if they find out.
Fukkit.
I reckon we should mutiny, and secede from the Almighty Megalithic Mrkn Monster!
Give ourselves 250% payrises!
Have Xmas parties every day!

Sit around on our bums drinking coffee and browsing the Interdweeb instead of working.

...wait... I already do that...

[Stirts]

I am very much in the death grip of "going back to work blues" I have already started seeking out new employment. I don't actually go back until Monday and just the thought makes me break out into a cold sweat and my stomach heavy with knots :weep:

But I must admit I get paid pretty well considering I have to do sweet bugger all. It pays the bills and puts the fuel in the bike and that is all that matters :)

[Lias]

Payrise?!?
You lucky lucky lucky lucky lucky lucky lucky lucky lucky [gasp] lucky lucky lucky lucky bastidge!


We're remarkably lucky in that our employer actually gives us resonsably regular cost of living increases.

[Skunk Control]

Buggar, already got the back to work blues and I don't start back till Monday, crap, but it could be worse :eek:

[Mully]

A recruitment person once told me (many moons ago) that January was when everyone started looking for jobs - for this very reason.

Still, once Miss Mully is earing the big money, I can retire and play golf all day.