Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Curse of weekends

Listening to a radio programme yesterday evening. Anchor asked to send in messages about what good has happened to people today. One girl wrote: "Monday is over, so i'm one day closer to weekend."

I do know the feeling, i've been in a crap job for a little while ten or eleven years ago: grinding through the week in anticipation of the two free days. But i was smart or lucky enough to move away very quickly, however many, many people are working in crap jobs and paradoxically, perhaps the only thing that keeps them in the paid job are free days. Now, what would those people do, if you took those two free days away? Many would reconsider what are they doing with their time and if it's something they want to do.

Someone's got to do the crap job, i hear you saying. But i have this naive and idealistic view, that the more happier the people are around you, the more happier you are yourself. So let's cancel the weekends.

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