I really dread Monday mornings and going back to work…

[WhatACluster]

To be honest the dread normally starts on Sunday evening, my mind clicks into work mode and I start planning and overthinking my week ahead.

Doesn’t help that I have really started to hate my job…and I mean really hate it, so much so I am behind on important bits which doesn’t help my situation about Mondays..

Apart from finding a new job any tips on how to stop these feelings? I feel anxious, depressed and disconnected from it all 😔

why is getting a new job off the cards?

what you describe sounds a bloody awful way to exist

I agree a new job would potentially help.

But before that happens, I try to attend to the end of my week so I don't have stress going back on Mondays.

Make sure you finish stressful things before the weekend and schedule Monday morning to review emails, do simple tasks, filing etc.

Can you get signed off while you look for a new job…? Or take leave.

I sympathise with you so very much. I used to be so stressed about Monday that I would start to get down and low on Sunday which would then progress to vomiting just from stress. Very toxic work environment. For a time I would schedule something i really wanted to do for Sunday afternoons/evenings so I could 'look forward ' to that- a cinema trip, out for dinner with my family. But ultimately what happened is I had to get signed off for 2 weeks, then i quite and looked for another job. Which I got and my life changed.

I hope so much that you are okay and you can seek other work. Life is too short to feel like this.

I have updated my CV and I have been meaning to send it off to a few agencies but I just haven’t had the motivation to do it, I seem to be stuck in this awful cycle.

I will spend some time at lunch doing a job search I think.

I am so far behind I think I need to book a 1-1 with my line manager and explain the situation. It’s a very high stress jobs and I have just been ignoring/letting things slide.

Sadly I will only get statuary sick pay which won’t even cover the food bill let alone any actual bills.

It’s really getting me down

You have a good plan.

I found my work via a recruitment agency. I started by doing temp work and that very quickly led to me being offered a full time role for a few places and I chose what i wanted. Do you have any annual leave you can take in the next few weeks to get a breather and put your back into finding another role? Is there any way you can have a break for a bit-0 even a few days or a week? It sounds like you desperately need it. xxx

Nothing worse than a Monday morning looming at a job you hate. The whole week stretching ahead full of aggravation, rows, bullying, silences and people talking rubbish. I’m retired now but that is what was allowed to go on. It made me ill