How common is Sunday evening doom feeling?

[Wendiy]

My current role is not very well paid and not that interesting, but it is local and low stress. In previous roles I have had more money but a doom feeling on Sunday evening. I don’t know if I should be grateful at lack of doom feeling or look for more interesting work?

I get it. Sunday doom was very real for me when I was in a training-level role and being bullied. Luckily my current colleagues are much nicer.

I only had the doom feeling for one job. I was so miserable. I used to make DH take me out for dinner on Sunday because othrwise I would be in a slump of despair from about 11 am onwards.

After 4 years of that I could not stand it anymore. The final straw was when I sat in my car looking at the wall and thinkig I could just drive into it and finally get a break.

I will always, but always take a boring job that does not make me feel like that any day.

It's very normal, even if you like your job. I've had it since secondary school. I still call it Maths Homework Gloom.

I get it.

Have a shitty time with colleagues at the moment.

Applying for jobs.

I've taken a drop of £5 an hour into a menial admin role (scanning and filing documents all day long) but I can honestly say I've never been happier. There is no stress, or worry. Its basically, I like following procedures because I'm autistic and on Sunday evening look forward to working the next day.

I love my hours and my colleagues and the commute. But most of all I love the lack of imposter syndrome.

I didn’t have it for years. Then I moved jobs to become a cover supervisor in a secondary school and hated it. The fear was real.

I am now in a pastoral role in the same school and love it. My salary pretty much doubled too. It is hard work though. Just to say my hours increased by 7.5 hours a week but I’m fine with that.

I’m a teacher. I love my weekends. The week is tiring as it’s so full on. I do get the doom feeling often

Previous job it was horrendous and would kick in by Saturday evening

Job I’m in now honestly never, look forward to going in as love the people I work with and my manager is fab

My job can be stressful, more in terms of the immense workload and the fact that we are a government department that need more people to do the job but the budget isn’t there. But I never have the Sunday doom feeling like I have in other jobs and that is all down to the lovely team of people I work with and managers that care and support us, ensuring senior management know how hard we are working. They are also realistic about what we can achieve and chip in themselves. To me that makes all the difference and allows me to enjoy my weekends and not worry about Monday until Monday comes. There are jobs out there that provide a challenge and are perhaps a tad more interesting, without the Sunday dread, but sadly they seem few and far between.

Me too, I still shudder a bit when I hear the theme from either The Antiques Roadshow or Songs of Praise. I've been happily retired for a few years now, and Sunday evenings are full of schadenfreude. Sorry to those who still experience this!

I get this feeling whenever my manager is also in work. As he is, unfortunately, rarely off, I'm really looking forward to a fortnight off from him at Christmastime.

In our family, Songs of Praise and the opening chords to the News at 6 (on any day of the week) were enough to clear the room of everyone bar my grandparents😂

I would choose being grateful at the lack of doom.

I used to get it. But don’t anymore. Becoming a parent, getting older and stressing less about work generally helped a lot. Also: we go to the pub as a family for dinner every Sunday evening which helps us all relax

Ask anyone who grew up in the 80s in Ireland about the feeling the music for Glenroe gives them. They are your people.

The coronation street theme tune gives it to me! Meant bed time and back to school

I hate that feeling, so always choose if I can to not work Mondays. I know people will say don’t I then have Monday night feeling, but I don’t. I think because I generally do boring jobs on a Monday, I’m then ready to go to work. I always hated the way it made an otherwise really nice Sunday family day feel down!

I used to have this although most of the time I don’t mind my job too much. I now work 32 hours over 4 days and Tuesday is my non working day, so Monday no longer seems to be as bad as I have the next day off.

Be grateful for the lack of doom feeling, but perhaps seek a more enjoyable and better paid position while you bask! 🙂

Yes it’s often a clue that you’re being bullied, especially if it starts on Saturday afternoon!

I always feel a bit down on a Sunday evening.

weekends go by so quickly. I love the job I do, I love the children, I just don’t like some of my colleagues who make life difficult for everyone else. For some reason those who shout the loudest get away with doing fuck all at times and management dance to their tunes.

I've had the Sunday doom feeling for the last 4 months and it's horrible. Moving to a new team next week and can't wait. Never underestimate how awful poor managers can make you feel.

I used to have it. One of the reasons I retired at 61

I get the sunday doom feeling, don't necessarily hate my job but just love time and home with my kids over the weekend, the thought of the weeks mayhem always makes me feel a bit shit

I've always called it the Sunday Scaries. Have had it at most roles but thankfully not my current one. However age, and sense of identity now coming more from family than career.

Don’t quite understand this comment. I was definitely bullied and felt anxious constantly, couldn’t sleep. I left.