I occasionally see people saying silly stuff like how bad it is when you dread Monday. And to be completely fair to all, let’s redefine Monday in a wider way than the day after Sunday. Let’s use it as a euphemism for the day after not working. Monday dread, Sunday Scaries. Whatever you call it, basically put, you dread having to get back to work.

If you don’t feel this way, you are not normal. It stinks going back to work. It always has, it always will. Accept it. Most of the time you will dread it unless you have the opposite dread of going to home.

This is generally a good thing

If you are excited to get to work instead of being at home or vacation, that is a signal that something else is going on that you need to take care of, and these are not needs I can help you with this blog.

Generally speaking, disliking going back means you like your life, and your work is not your life. No matter what situation you are in, ideally, work is worse, or at least certainly not better than being off of work.

How much though?

The problem becomes how much and why you dread work. If you dread it because you don’t want to get off the couch where you have cued up a movie marathon of classic films, this is awesome.

On the other hand, if you have a dread that makes you feel like you would rather be having no-anesthesia dental surgery, well, that may be another thing altogether.

Sometimes this just comes down to a task you have to do. It is tax time and your job to file it for your company (no idea if this is how it works, but I have heard people discuss having to deal with taxes as being hard, doing my simple personal taxes is not a pleasant thing), or it is your turn to clean the grease traps (I do still have flashbacks to those times working at a fast food restaurant).

We all have tasks we hate to do that make some times worth dreading. These days it usually resolves around some repetitive weekly task.

Some dread is too much.

Just beware of the kind of dread that doesn’t go away when you hit play on your favorite movie or you are at a theme park eating a churro between rides on a roller coaster. If you can’t get away from the dread of going back to work long enough to have a nice time, that is definitely not healthy.

But to those who are genuinely happy and say you shouldn’t dread Monday, I don’t know what kind of job or what kind of job you have, but I think even that job for the “Calorie Free Perfect Tasting Pizza and Chocolate tester for the Magic Food Charity Kitchen” would still be less fun than enjoying a day off.

And I was writing this on Sunday night, so I 100% feel pretty much all of this despite the fact that I have another week of building cool stuff in Microsoft Fabric. Even sitting here writing this on my own time is more fun than doing that… because it is my time.