Welcome to the working week
Oh, I know it don't thrill you, I hope it don't kill you
Welcome to the working week
You gotta do it till you're through it, so you better get to it
First morning back at work today and the feeling of existential dread that consumes me is immeasurable. Another 25 years of this? (Current calculations suggest I will need to work till I'm 70 to pay off my mortgage.) How can I do that?
I used to dream I'd get a job I enjoyed, that paid me well, that would be my passion. I realise now that this, like so many ideas I had in my youth, was a young man's folly.
Still, I've always got Elvis...
Why d'you want to be my friend when I feel like a juggler running out of hands?
I feel for you, the whole first day back thing, hope it wasn't so bad. I don't get that Monday morning feeling any more as I tend to work through weekends, but then neither do I get that Friday night feeling either so I miss that part!
ReplyDeleteOkay, now I risk sounding like one of those corny affirmation plaque things people put on their walls but... Stay focused on what you'd like and hold onto those dreams. You just never know how/when things can change and peculiar opportunities can present themselves when you least expect them.
I'm biting my cynical tongue and just saying, "OK"... thanks, though, C.
DeleteI know, and I can't stand those bloody affirmation things, they wind me right up. But.... well anyway, I said it already.
DeleteCounting the days on my mortgage. 9 years to go.
ReplyDeleteWhat will you do then, SA?
DeleteFor the most part, over here we all went back to work and school on January 2. Sounds like your part of the world has the right idea. Still, that comment didn't help you one bit with today, did it? Hopefully EC's one-and-a-half-minute anthem got you started on the right foot.
ReplyDeleteI thought you workaholics went back on December 26th!
DeleteWe do normally go back on the 2nd or 3rd in my job but this year we worked right up till the Friday before Christmas. I get two weeks because I work in education, a lot of people in the UK only get a few days... but I think it's becoming more common to book extra holidays around this time of year, particularly if you've got kids and they're off school for 2 weeks.
Hope it wasn’t too bad either. Having made a few radical changes in terms of the working week myself of late however, the alternative turns out to be no better as just causes other stresses. It grieves me to say this but no-one can be a perfectionist in today’s working world and I now wish I could have got my head round that concept now. As C says, hold on to those dreams and keep on dreaming as life is a long journey and I have a feeling some of them might well come true. And of course, there’s always Elvis (both of them!).
ReplyDeleteElvii?
DeleteI was once on a train when a whole group of Elvises (Elvii) boarded. Quite a sight. They were all in the spangly white suit get up though, not the cool Elvis look, sadly. Anyway I told my friend about them when I met him off the train and he suggested most brilliantly the collective noun 'a Vegas of Elvises'. Sticks in the mind!
DeleteOh I like that "A Vegas of Elvii".
DeleteThey're always the white suited variety and rarely cool young Elvis - Not many could carry that look off.
Counting the days on my mortgage too. It's 21 and couting!!
ReplyDeleteHave taken a big hit this past few years to stick to tne plan of having it paid off before I'm 55 an Rachel turns 60. The next 9 months will see heavy investment back into the fabric of the house, after which we will have it back in the condition it was when we bought it in 1995, albeit RBS dont have their claws in any part of it.
Retirement just got a bit closer. It's now all about getting access to the local government pension scheme that I've been paying into since 1985.
Having said all that, I too went back to work on 8 January and the entire week was very tough. Great song selection Rol.