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Anyone feel knackered from there job at the weekend?

14 replies

SouthMan28 · 11/06/2022 14:28

As I'm mostly am! And makes me feel depressed most of the time!

Anyone else drained from work at weekends

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Somewhereinfragglerock · 11/06/2022 14:28

Every day I'm drained yes!!!!

iwishiwasafish · 11/06/2022 14:32

Yes. And I’ve also just hit that “sandwich generation”stage where weekends and evenings are now taken up taking care of elderly parents, just when my kids had hit the teenage years and I thought I could start to use the weekends for some r&r.

Honestly this weekend I almost can’t bear it. Work was horrendous last week, will be the same for the next few weeks, but the weekends are also full. (In fact I am hiding just now to get some secret downtime).

iwishiwasafish · 11/06/2022 14:33

Sorry 🙁That was a big old moan.

TabithaTiger · 11/06/2022 14:42

Not every weekend, but I'm feeling rubbish today after a particularly stressful week. I cancelled my plans and I'm spending the day at home instead.

MajorCarolDanvers · 11/06/2022 14:44

I'm exhausted and drained this weekend.

I worked too many hours, experienced too much stress, no breaks and in supporting others took on their emotions too.

Total relaxation this weekend.

CarpeVitam · 11/06/2022 14:47

Absolutely! I work full time in school and it's flat out all day! I'm shattered come the weekend and happy just to mostly chill!

Welshrarebit75 · 11/06/2022 14:51

Every weekend is now just trying to recover from the week, to be able to hit another Monday and start the whole thing again.

Hamster on a wheel.

Catmummyof2 · 11/06/2022 14:53

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applecatchers36 · 11/06/2022 15:04

Yes drained is the word. Quite happy to loll about on the sofa this afternoon.
Usually feel a bit more recovered by Sunday.

CaptSkippy · 11/06/2022 15:10

I feel the same.

I have at least one day per weekend where I can't muster up the motivation to do anything. The fact that weekends are only two days feels depressing, knowing I lose at least one day to recovering from the workweek. It's so unfair. I work to live and yet, my lifestyle suggests the opposite. I feel like most of what I do in my free time is preparing for and recovering from all the energy (and money - like fuel, foord for lunches, buying snacks because I crave them, clothes that are appropriate for the office, maintenance on my vehicle because I use it more often when commuting) I use up just for work.

Add to that the following as well: I lose sleep, because I can never fall asleep early enough to get a solid eight hours before I have to get up again to leave in time for work. The time that I spend in the morning and the evenings to get ready to leave and to prepare for the mornings so my routines are easier when I am still groggy.

Then there is the willpower I use from doing tasks that are boring, but still need to get done, to switching tasks, to being interrupted, to having to drown out other conversations around me that do not pertain to make work. I have little left for myself.

To make a long story short, My employer drains me. They take so muchy from me and refuse to pay me properly in return, despite the fact that I have gotten more experience and am now more productive. I have started to resent them. Even if I switch companies, a year or two down the line I will be in the same place. I hate it!

BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz · 11/06/2022 15:13

Yes, and it's exacerbated by one if my dc wanting to do something every minute of the day. She is 10 and doesn't appear capable of entertaining herself alone. I put it down to her being a classic extrovert. I'm the opposite Grin.

I do a job I can do in 100% silence, alone, with one weekly check in with a line manager. Bliss. But stressful in its own way.

It's like fire and ice, weekdays to weekend.

missushbbb · 11/06/2022 15:17

yes, me too. i've really noticed this lately. i am just so tired working full time looking after two kids, non stop ferrying around to clubs, school drop offs. i'm knackered.
But yes you mentioned work, and it tires me so much too. i hate when workmates suggest a work night out too. my workmates are lovely, i am just too tired!!

Arglwydd · 11/06/2022 15:26

@iwishiwasafish don’t apologise for venting. It actually helped me to realise i am not alone and somebody else feels the same as i do.
I sometimes wish i could break a leg or similar to get out of being the fallback person…🙈 not a healthy way to live!
Hope the weeks go ok for you. Stay in your hiding place a bit longer eh 😆

TabithaTiger · 11/06/2022 16:16

I wonder if this week was especially bad as it was the weekend after half term and the long bank holiday? So many people were off last week, it feels like they've all come back and immediately feel the need to email or book meetings with me!

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