Anyone else dreading going back to work

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I have been off since 20 Dec. Loved spending time at home, walking up late.
I dread going back to work. The meetings, thd deadlines and travelling. Also, the school run.

Atleast it's only 2 days before the weekend.

Yes, absolutely dreading it. My eye has only just stopped twitching (stress) after two weeks off, no doubt it’ll start up again by the middle of next week.

Dreading.

most of my Christmas leave was effectively cancelled which was shit but at least the client side was quiet when I was called in.

back properlt tomorrow to client deluge, having not had a decent break and none of the jobs in the house I needed to do, having been done. Right fed up, I am.

Get yourself some magnesium supplements.

I dread going to work every day (I know I need a new job) so it's not going to be much fun going back after a break. And we've got some major work on tomorrow and Friday so I'm dreading it more than usual.

I hate my job but at 61 can't see a way to change careers. So tired of living life through a computer, wfh.

I’m dreading it too.

I career changed in 2024 as I hated what I was doing and had done for a long time and it was making me very ill. I thought I loved my new career at first, but realised it was just a honeymoon period, and now I feel so miserable about it.

I have to keep telling myself how awful my previous career was to try and muster some enthusiasm for my current one, but I don’t think life should be like this - I feel I should be doing something I genuinely enjoy. For the amount I have to earn though, I fear I’m always going to feel stuck.

I’m sure it’s my turn to win the lottery now!

I was back in last Friday then Monday and Tuesday already. I'm now off again till 6th. Frontline so can never get the full time off unfortunately. I was glad to get away from all the people at home tbh!

I hate my job, working only 2hrs per day but with horrible people, who are excluding me from everything generally, never even say hello.

I'm dreading the 6am wake ups after a couple of weeks of enjoying a shower start to the day. But I really like my job, I have some good friends at work who I'm looking forward to seeing and as I work TTO I can console myself with the knowledge that I never have to go longer than 8 weeks without a break.

Tbh it's the constant cycle of washing school uniforms, keeping up with school emails, homework and making packed lunches that I dread way more than work!

Back tomorrow but fortunately can wfh on friday. It will be chaos - no staff and referrals will have been building up over the ten days we have been off. Need to look for a new job soon.

I've had the bank holidays and weekends off but have been at work in between. DH pretty much worked opposite days to me. As much as I hate that in the run up to Christmas (when all your friends are planning midweek catch ups and you're working), I am really glad of it now. I've had two lovely quiet three-day-weeks at work, quiet roads, and no January blues hitting me on Sunday night (hopefully!).

This is an interesting thread as a childfree 34 yo/fencesitter. Part of me thought this might be the year we changed our mind and started trying, but honestly having seen people try to cope with entertaining kids or finding childcare with the schools being off for two weeks, annual leave being tied to school holidays, dreading the early starts due to school run and the crappy routine that comes with it... I guess I am so grateful for my peaceful life where I work full time but the rest of my time is my own.

Mixed feelings here. I'm not in work till DCs go back to school on Monday but DH is in the office tomorrow and Friday. I'm looking forward to my 'extra' days, probably spent sorting out the house as well as spending time with DCs.

I also need some headspace to think about my job. I saw an advert for a really interesting role just before Christmas but I was completely frazzled at the time so I printed out the details and promised myself that I would take time this week to make a decision about whether to apply and - if yes - draft an application.

Me! I dread it every January and find it so hard going back after Christmas. It never gets easier.

I agree......nyd has fell in an odd way this year.

I've worked through, glad it's over though. Feel Christmas haw been a bit of a damp squib for us all and feel all other families have had time together and lovely celebrations. I imagine it's the biggest Sunday scaries feeling ever though so you all have my sympathies!!

Yep absolutely, it's making me feel a bit sick thinking about it. Indications in December were that we would be worked even further to the bone in 2025. I'm not looking forward to it at all.

Is that one long illness? I would get him checked out as the vomiting could be a sign of sepsis. I'm guessing he's been too ill to be socialising so it can't be norovirus if he hasn't been anywhere

Same tbh. It probably helps that I'm self employed and have a full diary in January which is a luxurious place to be in (I rarely have enough work in Jan) but I'm not back til the 7th due to school hols and I'm already more than ready to have a quiet day at my desk away from the kids.

I was thinking today how much I’ve enjoyed my time off - and I love my job! I don’t wanna go back <stamps feet>.

Im lucky that I WFH but if even then I have a colleague who I want to throttle half the time - she’s a far left leaning Starmer sycophant who is the most obnoxious argumentative arsehole I’ve ever met. Posing with her “Fuck the Tories” mug (yes I dislike the Tories too but when people make it their whole personality it makes me want to join the bloody party in retaliation) on Teams saying “Look at my mug everyone! Hahahahhaahja isn’t it brilliant, it says fuck the Tories hahahahaha”. She always interrupts, usually me, to give her opinion or tell a boring anecdote. And she must say at least once a day “This is why I didn’t become an MP in the end!”. She doesn’t even work in politics she works in event organisation 🤣 anyway, the thought of having to tolerate her on Teams is making feel quite depressed, and I’ve decided only 1:1 I’ll be raising these issues with our joint manager. If I had to work in an office with her I’d have left by now.

That lottery win really couldn’t come any sooner

Back tomorrow and dreading it. DH and I run a business, so we'll have 2 weeks of emails and phone calls waiting, along with having to deal with the usual holiday roll-overs and staff admin, missing deliveries, and trying to get work in for next week. And on top of that we've got to deal with a very skilled but hard to manage employee whose family life is intruding into their work time too much.

Me.. I've considered not going back (half joking.)

I work in education and have only just begun to feel "decompressed " from the shit show that schools are now.

I'm dreading going back, I'm dreading it so much that I could sob. I give literally everything to the kids and I have nothing left for my own, or my DH....or myself.

My body is just beginning to relax, my shoulders are beginning to drop so I am nowhere near ready to face the classroom again.

I'm desperate to get back to work. I've been off for 9 months with a knackered hip spending ages on waiting lists. I'm working from home so I'm getting paid but it's driving me nuts. I'm NHS.
I am just so fed up.
Mind you I don't have small children so there is nobody else to organise.
At least the cats are happier with me home all day.
I went out for a day and when I came home they were overcome with joy.

I am! I am lucky to be in a job I like.

I've been off for 3 weeks after surgery, so yeah, I'm dreading seeing how many emails I have tomorrow. Hopefully most of the senders paid heed to the OoO and other people have dealt with it in my absence. But who knows!