<p>or- ‘I can’t believe I have to go to work tomorrow’ feelings. Short of not going to work tomorrow- any ideas?</p>
<p>One thing that always makes it more bearable is to get very prepared for the week. I go over my lesson plans, plan lunches, dinners, look at my calendar, etc. Somehow, feeling prepared makes me feel better about going back to work.</p>
<p>Schedule an activity you really like for Monday evenings. Then you can look forward to that. In my case, sewing class or chorus rehearsal.</p>
<p>Start making plans for the next weekend. I keep a calendar on my refrig. and write in things I plan to do that week. Every night I get out my sharpie and make a big X over the day I just completed. It makes the time till the next weekend seem shorter.</p>
<p>I think this is a common syndrome . :). </p>
<p>We have found that if we try to keep Sunday more low-key and not packed with activities, we feel more relaxed and like we had more of a day to enjoy instead of getting to Sunday night and feeling like the day flew by.</p>
<p>Also try to cook enough on Sunday to have a quick meal ready to go for Monday so that the first day of the work week isn’t so hectic.</p>
<p>I found that getting a new job helped a lot. 
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<p>Also, not sure if you have an empty nest or not, but this year with that I have taken to making sure all my errands are getting done on the weekend and I cook quite a bit on Sunday so I really limit “chores” during the week. That allows me to have some down time to exercise or do something I want to during the week in the evenings. I also have taken to going in pretty early so I can leave earlier, thus giving myself a less crowded commute and more time in the evening for “stuff” I want to do.</p>
<p>I had this problem for years. I tried many of the ideas already suggested, but never found the one that solved the problem…until I retired! :D</p>
<p>Great ideas here. I too get those Sunday evening blues, especially when it’s a long weekend. I’m not much of a TV viewer, but I look forward to certain TV shows: 60 minutes, Downton Abbey, The Midwife, The Good Wife (is there a theme here?).</p>
<p>Truth is, Sunday is my day of reckoning: I go through my To Do List and dread having to do those last items I haven’t checked off. I always feel better once those are done, but it’s never fun.</p>
<p>Retirement solves this issue!</p>
<p>But Thumper, if I retired, I’m afraid I’d never get my daily or weekly To Do Lists complete.</p>
<p>rockymtnhigh – I have that feeling a lot - “I can’t believe I have to go to work tomorrow” – even when it’s not Sunday night.</p>
<p>I think for me (and maybe you) it stems from the feeling that on your off hours, you’re living the life you want to live, and then Monday morning rolls around, and you have to pretzel yourself into this corporate thing that isn’t about you or your goals or dreams or values.</p>
<p>So here is what works for me – try and bring your goals and dreams and values into work with you. Sort of like “bring your daughter to work” day. But instead of a 9 year old girl, you are bringing your own aspirations for your life to your job.</p>
<p>What do I mean by that? One day, I told myself I would try and further my writing career by seeing how much good authentic dialogue I could get from talking to people on the phone and trying to sell them something (my job). And I got a lot of good phrases and ways of saying things I never could have come up with by myself. And it made being at work a lot more worthwhile.</p>
<p>If you can see your job as akin to or in support of or someway carrying you along to the life you want, you won’t mind waking up and going in.</p>
<p>My cure was Breaking Bad, now it is Homeland, next it will be Shameless ;)</p>
<p>We don’t plan anything for Sun night, we have an early dinner and relax in front of TV. Right now we are watching Star War with D2 before she goes back to school tomorrow morning. I have some flexibility with my schedule now, so I try not to schedule too many meetings on Mon, but Tue-Thu are absolutely packed. I also ease off on Fri by scheduling few fun things to do with my staff.</p>
<p>I thought that only happened to me. When I had a corporate job, I got the Sunday night blues weekly. It was the most melancholy feeling. Changing jobs doesn’t help unless the new job happens to be your dream job - the Sunday night blues will eventually return. And, why is it that I could get up bright-eyed and bushy-tailed on the weekends but weekdays, I dragged my blanket all the way to work? I work part-time now, now I just get the got no money blues 
I honestly don’t know which is worse. It’s probably time to trade it in for the Sunday Night Blues again, bah.</p>
<p>I felt this way for years-until I quit teaching and got a job with a lower stress level. I also used to feel this way when the kids were little, since we had to cram so many chores, cooking, laundry, music lessons etc. into the weekend, and I would feel that we hadn’t had any time for relaxing.<br>
But having the kids out of the nest and the job enjoyable have gotten rid of that awful dread/anxiety/cheated feeling that made me really hate Sunday afternoons and evenings.</p>
<p>Anxiousmom,
What do you do for work now? I have been thinking ahead to my retirement from teaching and decided that I am not the type of person to NOT work at all. I love teaching but it has become enormously stressful. Sunday night for me feels like I am at the bottom of a mountain and I have to get to the top of it.</p>
<p>Lately I have been thinking that I would make a great bartender!</p>
<p>I was a school librarian before I went into the classroom. Now I work for the public library system, and life is SO much better!!!</p>
<p>Ahhhh! That sounds so peaceful. A little different than bartending!</p>
<p>And why do my coworkers always want to schedule all late afternoon meetings on Mondays, especially after holidays…ugh…</p>
<p>You have no idea how much better I feel reading this - I thought I was the only one! Such a love/hate with Sunday. Morning, so peaceful…evening, so much dread. Both about going in to work, and just getting into the weekly “grind”. I don’t understand how we can still have a “grind” when our nest is empty!! :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Looking forward to all the suggestions.</p>