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If Mondays are bad, then the first work day after coming home from our vacation is extremely bad. This is the day when we have to wake up early again after days (or weeks) of sleeping in. When we get to the office in the morning, we still want to talk about our vacation. We linger around the coffee machine in the lunch room just for a chance that someone else will step in and ask how our vacation was.
Eventually though, our minds (more likely our bosses) bring us back to reality. In most companies, someone taking vacation usually doesn’t mean that the person is excused from work for the duration of the time off but rather mean that the work is just delayed until the person comes back. Therefore, around the same time we realize that it is indeed a work day, we also find out that there are already piles of work waiting for us to complete which was due yesterday.
We all want to stop feeling bad after we come back, so here are some things to possibly reduce the Monday blue effects for us to try.
People are Nice to You If You are Nice to Them
Next time someone goes on vacation, we should offer to help do part of their work. Other than the fact that we are all extremely selfless people, why do we want to do this? Simple. We want them to help us do some of our work when we go on vacation so things aren’t piled if we are not here. This is much easier to do in big companies since there are usually more cross training, but it can also be implemented in small companies. Many of us believe that no one else can do our work. However, your friend can definitely help a lot while you are gone with a little bit of training.
Take Shorter Vacations
It’s understandable that we don’t want to take shorter vacations, but why do we want to take 2, sometimes 3 weeks of vacation at a time? It actually makes us much happier if we go on 2 week-long vacations than to take a longer 2 week vacation once a year, yet many people would save their vacations to get out of the office for a longer time. Honestly, don’t you think that the boss would notice if the company runs smoothly with you gone for 3 weeks?
Life Style Changes
Why are we staying up at night and sleeping in during vacations when we are clearly used to waking up early at least 5 days of the week? If you spend some time in the morning during the weekends, you will realize that it is actually a very pleasant time of the day. Streets aren’t as busy, the air is fresh, and most of all you feel like you have a whole day to not think about work!
I assure you that if you stick to a similar sleeping pattern during your vacation and work, you will feel more energetic when you get back, not to mention be generally healthier! In the end, you need to be energetic to earn more money and be healthy enough to enjoy the life after you are financially free!
You might not agree with some of these suggestions, but why not try them? Just remember to report back to us of your experience. For those that have found some other secret to feeling happy to go back to work, we’d appreciate it if you share it with us!
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I hardly ever use my vacation time, but that’s mainly due to the fact that I can flex my time as well. Plus I find that I spend more money when I don’t have to go to work.
I guess I’m not that accustomed to vacations in general since we never really took them as a family growing up.
Europe manages its economy and workers very well with SIX weeks of vacation. The US should do that and have a healthier. happier population. Also employers should stop demotivating staff by telling them they will be replaced, all the time.
I suppose it depends on how much vacation time you accrued during the length of your employment and where you want to go.
For instance, when I lived in Colorado, I saved my vacation time which was 2 weeks for 2 weeklong trips to the east coast to visit with the family.
Now that I am back on the east coast, and my work hours are very flexible, I often find difficulty using my vacation time because I can take a four day weekend and work the following weekend to make up for the 2 days off. What makes it difficult is I am only allowed to roll 40 hours into the new fiscal year. So imagine my surprise when I was told I had to use up 120 PTO time or loose it in less than 7 weeks. Needless to say, I managed.