I love my job, I hate my job, I work only for money, I need promotion... whatever category you fall in, there is always Sunday Evening Syndrome(SES).
Nobody, doing job or did it at some stage, need any explaination to this. With each passing moment after late afternoon, this syndrome starts growing on you. There is this feeling, you just want to skip the time and fast forward to Monday morning. Its like, the sight of doctor holding injection is more painful than actual act.
One can feel this more strongly in US than in India, at least I did. Saturday is more fun than sunday and friday night was the best. One has the liberty to take the risk of spoiling it. Saturday is always there to make up for it.
One might argue that, this is applicable to only those who dont enjoy the job. I doubt. Everyone goes through SES. This has nothing to do with the Job. One always enjoy the activity more if there is holiday on the next day. So great was the effect that till now,even as a employer, I always make sure that whenever we go for outing, there is holiday next day. Enjoyment level is high and one get good rest.
Going back to those days, whats the solution?
After lot of trial and error, we found the best solution (of course for us) worked out to be wine party starting at 6 pm. So now we had something to look forward to, all through afternoon. Guys, this is certainly the best way to beat the SES, drink wine. Now why wine? because you already have everything on friday and saturday. Wine somehow sounded decent on sunday evening.
Anyway, we had great time.(Has anyone heard other thing apart from this for weekend activity in US?).
No, seriously we had great time. We learned lot of things which I doubt that I could have ever learned. Like, reason to toast, there is PhD in wine tasting, one can tell the details of grapes by tasting wine. It was wonderfull to know that people actually drink for other reasons than getting drunk. There was no dearth of topics on sunday evening with wine. We sounded more academic and scholarly in these discussions (I am comparing this to saturday night). It could range from engineering to medicine to astronomy to economics to politics to sport to films to phylosophy and others which obviously I cant mention here. It also helped to know each other in better way. The end used to be little bit unpleasant over the topic of cleaning the place. Worst part, it always used to be at our apartment.
But overall the sunday evening was more pleasant with this way. The time just flew and fast forwarded to Monday Morning.
Nobody, doing job or did it at some stage, need any explaination to this. With each passing moment after late afternoon, this syndrome starts growing on you. There is this feeling, you just want to skip the time and fast forward to Monday morning. Its like, the sight of doctor holding injection is more painful than actual act.
One can feel this more strongly in US than in India, at least I did. Saturday is more fun than sunday and friday night was the best. One has the liberty to take the risk of spoiling it. Saturday is always there to make up for it.
One might argue that, this is applicable to only those who dont enjoy the job. I doubt. Everyone goes through SES. This has nothing to do with the Job. One always enjoy the activity more if there is holiday on the next day. So great was the effect that till now,even as a employer, I always make sure that whenever we go for outing, there is holiday next day. Enjoyment level is high and one get good rest.
Going back to those days, whats the solution?
After lot of trial and error, we found the best solution (of course for us) worked out to be wine party starting at 6 pm. So now we had something to look forward to, all through afternoon. Guys, this is certainly the best way to beat the SES, drink wine. Now why wine? because you already have everything on friday and saturday. Wine somehow sounded decent on sunday evening.
Anyway, we had great time.(Has anyone heard other thing apart from this for weekend activity in US?).
No, seriously we had great time. We learned lot of things which I doubt that I could have ever learned. Like, reason to toast, there is PhD in wine tasting, one can tell the details of grapes by tasting wine. It was wonderfull to know that people actually drink for other reasons than getting drunk. There was no dearth of topics on sunday evening with wine. We sounded more academic and scholarly in these discussions (I am comparing this to saturday night). It could range from engineering to medicine to astronomy to economics to politics to sport to films to phylosophy and others which obviously I cant mention here. It also helped to know each other in better way. The end used to be little bit unpleasant over the topic of cleaning the place. Worst part, it always used to be at our apartment.
But overall the sunday evening was more pleasant with this way. The time just flew and fast forwarded to Monday Morning.
