Tell me why you don't want to go to work tomorrow

[BeatieBourke]

It's Sunday night. It's gone 11. I should be in bed, getting some serious shut eye for a busy week at work.

But I'm not, because I can't quite bring myself to admit the weekend is over. I've had a great one, pottering in the garden, having a laugh with DS and DH, and getting out and about in the countryside.

My job is ok. It's a worthy pursuit, it helps people, is pretty aligned with my politics and has the potential to be pretty lucrative (by my standards). It's also stressful, quite lonely, and a HUGE responsibility.

We bought a van this weekend and plan to convert it into a camper. We're hoping to have a two week driving / camping holiday around France for my 40th next summer.

I don't want to go to work tomorrow. I just want to walk my dog, work on the van, and make tasty food.

Why don't you want to go to work in the morning?

Because there are brighter sides to life...

Because it means leaving my 1 year old and taking him to nursery. He's all good once he's there but the crying for me at the door when he goes inside leaves me with incredible mum guilt the whole journey to work

Because it's so hectic it gives me anxiety. Tomorrow will be hell. Roll on home time.

I normally do Mondays wfh and go to the gym in the morning but I have to train a newcomer who’s being placed in a higher pay grade than me, spurring resentment about my gym routine and my pay

Because I have just started a new job and then got covid and I am already behind
The rational side of my head says they will understand
The irrational side says they are going to be pissed off
I am not going in as still positive but will wfh if I don't feel too shitty
Been in bed since Thursday lunchtime though. Just got up this evening
😩

Because my DC are finally back at school in the morning after a 2 week half term and I feel like I need a holiday not work

Because DH is away till Wed, leaving me with a new and improved nest of childcare headaches (as our childcare arrangements relied on me WFH, but I couldn’t pass this up), my job is very new, challenging and also difficult because of some stuff specific to my department which requires a lot of tactful handling, and I have to do something I’m very nervous about for the first time this week. Deep desire to pull the duvet over my head.

solidarity to anyone feeling similarly wibbly.

Because it's Monday and it's my day off! 😂
I'm self employed and have vowed to never work a Monday again!

Have worked a long busy weekend so I am going to enjoy some chill time tomorrow 😀

Sorry probably not the reply you were looking for!!! 🤣

Oh boy, I remember those days. The mum guilt is real.

It's the end of half term week here, and DS has been such a joy because he's well rested and has had so much of our full attention. I dread getting back on the hamster wheel.

That said, he loves school. The mum guilt does lessen to an extent with age (and then rears it's head in new and challenging ways). Nursery will be great for your little one and you are doing a great job. That transition towards independence at 1 is so tough on mums.

Because I’m a childminder, been sick all week with viral bronchitis which i suspect I caught from a 1yo who has spent all week coughing all over me. The previous week my children and I caught d & v from a different child!

I am so sick of working 50 hours a week (at least), I don’t get paid when I have to close for my sickness. Plus I am letting down at least 3 families a day when I close.

I wish people were more considerate of their childcare providers and stopped sending in their sick kids!!

My “d”h left me this weekend and I found out about his affair. Our dd is heartbroken her family as she knows it has just disappeared 😰.

I’ve emailed work, can’t face it.

I don't want to go to work because I've had to socialize this weekend and don't feel I've had enough downtime. Plus I have to train a new starter at work on a system I'm not too confident at. My laptop has also decided to play silly buggers and I know it will be hell to get the tech guys to look at it.

Thays really crap. I hope you feel better. Take the time you need, better to have stamina for the long game. If your new employer doesn't get it they're duds.

Bloody hell, I'm so sorry. Poor you and poor Dd. Not going in is absolutely the right thing to do.

You "D"h is a shit and in time life will be brighter without him. You deserve so much more.

I’ve had 3 weeks off and it’s my first day back tomorrow. I’m delivering a day of training so need to be on the ball.

im tired but not sleepy. The baby has woken up twice already too.

Because I’m still ill after having bloody COVID months ago.

I'm ill and I don't want to make anyone else ill!

Everyone's reasons are so much more valid than mine!

Yet here I am, having a late night cuppa and watching reruns of gogglebox.

Why?!

I love that everyone else in the house is asleep. Its somehow better than them being out, or being out myself and having a babysitter. They're all tucked up and where they should be. I'm on my own at home, no one needs me. It feels like freedom.

No words can comfort you right now. Just sending both you and your daughter a big hug xx

Because I did 60hrs last week and 7 more this weekend. I have just got my inbox down to 40 emails from 700 as I do every weekend and I’m sick of waking at 3am worrying about getting through the meetings and calls this week. I just want a bit of time to be me and to be a Mum.

Because I'm 33 weeks pregnant and bloody exhausted- I'm ill and in pain and just want to lie on the sofa and zone out until baby gets here. Instead I am dreading another day looking after the egos of 40 twenty-somethings so they'll knuckle down and do their jobs without fuss, while in the middle of one of the worst recruitment crisis I've ever experienced during 18 years in this industry - we're all so bloody stretched at the moment, it's exhausting.

Because I have just been on leave for the last 10 days. It will be my first day back. But it is ok, I am WFH.

Why don't you want to go to work in the morning?

Because my bed won’t be there.

Because I just looked at my To Do list and realised it was todays and not tomorrows so it will carry forward to some sort of horror thing and I meant to go to bed at 10 so I could face it all....and its now 1.17.

Because I have a new headteacher who is absolutely useless and is running the school into the ground.

Because my 3 year old has been ill all weekend with a viral infection so he's off nursery tomorrow and I don't want to leave him with my mom while he's ill.

Because my 6 year old has not been out of the house all weekend due to the little one's illness and shitty weather, so I'd love to take him out somewhere.

Because I have lost my love for my job since having my own children, but I need school holidays so feel trapped.