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!

Life gets tedious don't it!

Happy new year Trudes. 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! Now being a stay at home mum, I never get a holiday so I don't suffer from "back to work" blues

[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. 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.
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

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!

[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.
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

[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...