I like Mondays. Except for the ones I hate.

Depending on what study you read, only 2 - 5% of Americans claim to love the job they do.

Not quite that bad. More like 30%.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2013/10/10/unhappy-employees-outnumber-happy-ones-by-two-to-one-worldwide/


And as for their questions:

1. I know what is expected of me at work.
2. I have the material and equipment I need to do my work right.
3. At work, I have the opportunity to do what I do best every day.
4. In the last seven days, I have received recognition or praise for doing good work.
5. My supervisor, or someone at work, seems to care about me as a person.
6. There is someone at work who encourages my development.
7. At work, my opinions seem to count.
8. The mission or purpose of my company makes me feel my job is important.
9. My associates or fellow employees are committed to doing quality work.
10. I have a best friend at work.
11. In the last six months, someone at work has talked to me about my progress.
12. This last year, I have had opportunities at work to learn and grow.

I answer Yes to every one of them.


Although I love my job, I prefer weekends.
If you prefer Mondays over Saturdays it doesn’t mean you love your job, it just means your hobbies are not engaging enough.


L. Spiro

Wow, that's disappointing. I assume you are in/by Budapest? I have a Hungarian friend who lives in west Hungary and prefers it over the larger city. Does anyone talk about Communism anymore? Or will that just result in injuries?

Shogun.

Not about communism, but people talk too much about politics in the last decade. That's one of the big issues with this crap government.

Yes, Budapest though I spent most of my life in East-Hungary. There wasn't too much to do there. I don 't like the big city, but mostly the countryside is dull.

I loved living in a Finnish city, there was a very lively life, just like in a big city, but with 10 minutes of walk, I was at a lake or in an untouched forest (and not just some park with dogs and joggers). And no small talk about uninteresting life management topics.

To be fair, that headline seems to miss the content of its own article

Add the last two categories and you get 87% of workers worldwide who, as Gallup puts it, “are emotionally disconnected from their workplaces and less likely to be productive.”

The two categories being "Not engaged" and "actively disengaged." Ultimately, 13% of workers feel "engaged" at their job (which still is a far cry from 'loving what you do.'

My genuine apologies for the nitpick But, 30% just seemed remarkably high.

I like both, because not everything in life (for me) is about being productive and get good net results.
I sorta like my job, love my wife and daughter and my hobbies and friends.

Do people hate their jobs/lives THAT much? Tsk, tsk. I enjoy what I do, so that helps, I guess.

I like my job fine, but I enjoy doing what I want to do even more. Monday - Friday my days consist of: I go to work, come home, have dinner, spend time with family, have a little solo time to play/program/whatever, and go to sleep. Repeat.

Saturday/Sunday: Whatever the hell I want to do.

If you don't like the weekends so much, then it has nothing to do with how much you like your job, it's more about how you dislike everything else. Find something you enjoy.

If you don't like the weekends so much, then it has nothing to do with how much you like your job, it's more about how you dislike everything else. Find something you enjoy.

The one thing I enjoy in life most is work. Without it, I would go insane. I'm not interested in making friends, dating, drinking at bars, or much else outside of travel. I just wish I could work every day.

Shogun.

(Oops, posted to the wrong thread).

Tuesdays are actually the days that I find the toughest as Mondays I tend to feel set to take on the week. And of course weekends are the focal point for building on my life at home and catch up on any sleep that I may have lost over the week.

My biggest career goal has always been that my career does not get in the way of my life. That goal is a bit of a double edged sword though. On the one hand, my career needs to be successful enough to not financially disrupt my life; and on the other hand, it also needs to not consume so much of my time as to disrupt my life. I've been fairly successful with that balance and I think one of the results of that is I don't have any substantial like or dislike of any day of the week. I have my weekend activities, but I also have a variety of weeknight activities as well.

One of those fairly regular activities is a Friday night get together with friends, and for most of my friends it's a 'Thank God It's Friday' sort of get together. I've honestly never had that feeling and I constantly strive to make sure I never do. I certainly have the occasional stressful day at work, but they don't correlate to any given day of the week.

I usually work on weekends, too. Mondays, however, is when I have to start interacting with people again, so sometimes it gets stressful.