Do you get the Sunday night blues?

[Pom]

Dread your job or just sad the weekend is over? Apparently my H has never experienced the Sunday night phenomenon of dread about going to his job on Monday. I told him we've all been there. He is just having a rough time at work recently. Geez, he is 41 years old and this must be his first totally sucky job. I've hated Sunday nights a thousand times over.

I guess I should go join him in the shower to cheer him up.

[2boys2danes]

Funny... I actually tell my H every week that "I have a bad case of the Sunday nights"....have a hard time getting to sleep, etc. Odd thing is that I totally love my job and have been there for 13 years and plan to retire there, literally... so its not that. But I still get them.....

[Deleted]

I actually LOVE Sunday nights. I work weekends and Sundays until 8pm. So Sunday night means I am 1 work day closer to my day off (Tuesday)!

[matildasun]

When I was working, I had the hardest time on Sunday nights. I was never able to fall asleep at a reasonable time.

[panicked]

Oct 14, 2012 20:18:00 GMT -5 jjwritergirl said:

I'm this way after a busy weekend. I despise going back to work if I never had a chance to rest and relax. On the slow, housebound weekends I am usually bored enough to enjoy the concept of work.

This exactly, except I work from home (in-home daycare), so my Sundays are often spent cleaning, getting groceries, lesson planning, and getting stuff ready for the week. I sometimes start dreading Monday on Saturday, since Sunday isn't really all that relaxing.

[krystee]

I like my job and I still get the Sunday night blues frequently.

[AAM2012]

Yes, I also get the "I hate my job blues" after going on vacation. I tend to stay up super late on Sundays to try to avoid Monday.

[Deleted]

Yes. I like my job, but I like doing nothing more.

[luvmagoldn]

I get the blues because no matter how hard I try, I never feel on top of getting ready for the week ahead.

[80sjunkie]

I love my job but Sunday night is usually when I take stock of what I've accomplished during the week and it isn't always pretty.

[penguingrrl]

I've hated Sunday evenings since high school. Nothing worse than the weekend ending. Even as a SAHM our weeks are so hectic that Sunday night is a drag, especially because DH works long hours.

[dexteroni]

Not until I started hating my job. Before that it was like "oh darn, weekend's over." But once my job became ridiculous I would get seriously depressed every Sunday evening.

[Deleted]

My weekend almost never actually falls on a weekend so I don't get the Sunday night blues unless I get Sunday off.

[Nonny]

I like my job, but it's stressful and Sunday night means I'm just one sleep closer to going back and dealing with all the stress, and that bums me out.

Did he never get bummed about going back to school on Monday either? I think it was worse in school, and I was a total school loving nerd.

[Pom]

Well I was pleased to report to mr. Pom that he is not alone. I think the shower helped

[newhomeowner]

I search indeed.com frantically every Sunday night...

[cherry1111]

Yes, especially if ive had an especially fun weekend.

[Deleted]

I don't because my work is so short (3hrs/day) & easy but my DH does BAD! I hate that it ruins a lot of Sundays, especially Sunday nights.

[Doggy Mommy]

It's getting a little better, but I absolutely get it. A few weeks ago I cried on a Sunday night because I was dreading work so much. I didn't have the Sunday Blues for the last several years because I was extremely comfortable in my job and loved (most) of my co-workers. I switched schools this year, and while it was the right move for me, the change has been tough.

[heygrey]

It was way worse in high school. I liked school, but I really hated Mondays.

I don't get the blues now unless I know I have a really busy week. I hate looking ahead and knowing I don't have any significant home time for several days.

[bronxgirl]

I got it bad all through my growing up. Now I get it again, although not as bad.

[Deleted]

I actually like the structure of class and learning new material. I HATE HATE HATE going home and studying that same material for hours on end.

this leads to friday blues, lol. sundays are great for me - time with SO in the evening and I know the 13 hour stretches of rereading material are coming to an end.

[ellipses84]

Yes, and you know your job sucks when they start creeping into Sunday morning and Saturday night. I think a little bit of that feeling is normal even if you love your job, because weekends are fun and relaxing and all work can be boring or stressful at times. With a kid, I spend so much time Sunday night prepping for all of the things I won't have time to do, just to make the weekdays more manageable.

[ladygrey]

Yes - my friends and I started calling it the "Sunday Slump" in college and that moniker has stuck. DH knows to give me my space on Sunday nights, where I can just chill and enjoy myself before the week begins again.

[carfar]

I totally get them. I hate work so so so so much right now.

[mbcdefg]

Sometimes, even though I like my current job.

What really gets to me is when I'm sitting at work and waiting for the weekend, and then get bummed because I realize I'm essentially just trying to speed my life along.

[childofhiphop]

I always have so much to do on the weekends that I always feel that they are one day too short.

I usually dread Mondays. It starts on Sunday nights when I have to review my calendar and start getting ready.

[ReenaP]

I typically do not get the Sunday night blues. But I do get pre-weekend excitement on Thurs & Fri.

[Awkward]

Hardcore. I take a tylenol pm (or occcasionally something stronger) to get myself to fall asleep Sunday night. Otherwise I'll be up for hours staring at the ceiling dreading the morning.

For some reason I fell right asleep without medication or anxiety last night. Wonder why that could be.

[Deleted]

I don't usually, I am very good at disconnecting from work. DH on the other hand gets hit hard every week! It's not even that he hates his job, but the pressures of what he needs to do creep up Sunday afternoon and usually put a damper on our Sunday nights.