Trouble working 3 or more days straight....

Post Reply New Topic

For Aspies working right now, do you find you have trouble working three or more days straight without a day off? I find I get very tired, drained, and dislike my job a lot more if I have to work 3 or more days straight. However if I work 1 or 2 days separated by a day off I'm significantly more happy and enjoy more work more. I think it is because I get drained easily. I usually have work four straight days ever week and it's hard but I'm learning to handle it more but it's still tough and stressful to me.

When I was working and it became especially tough I just "bulled" my way forward. This is the way my generation was raised.

But I find, now I am retired, I work best when using the method you prefer.

So, being my own boss now (as it were) I schedule two days on and one day off. Unless I feel 1 or 2 days on with one or more days off is better. I'm the best boss I ever had.

It's definitely getting tougher as I age.

Up until recently I did this flat-out for decades, six day weeks. Then five. Then I went to four. Now just three consecutive days of work makes me feel like I just can't barely even force myself out of the house each morning. It's grinding me down and my executive functioning in simply getting ready in the morning is becoming extremely poor -- as are my finances.

The bad news is, my government has raised the retirement age on me, so where once upon a time I'd be jacking in all this BS in six years from now, I'm now looking at not being able to retire until 68 or beyond. By which time, for all I know, I may only have a couple of years of freedom before I drop dead. It's not a great prospect.

On the other hand, I think if I could work from home at something I actually love and enjoy, I think I could work endlessly. I can spend hours and hours every day at my computer creating stuff and working on things, and I have to force myself to stop.

For me it's the going OUT somewhere to have to deal with a work situation that I hate more than the actual work itself. If I could work while staying in my own personal chosen environment you'd probably get seven days a week out of me.

yeah. i work 5 days a week, 8 hrs a day. and then saturday and sunday, i'm just...barely existing. i hardly get out of my pj's...unless it's a payday week...and then most of the time i have a parent do it for me.

i suggest...that since there is a full time @ 8 hrs....and a part time @ 4 hrs.... what about a mid time @ 6 hrs.
that would suit me best...since most days i find myself restless and wanting to go to another location and do something else. it's not that i don't have enough work to fill 8 hrs. i do. sometimes i wish i could work from home--as the commute really sends me into meltdowns sometimes. i don't care if some politician finds my idea about Mid Time hours...and claims it as his/her....i would just like to see it happen. LOL

/rant

I do if I hate my job, which has usually been the case.

I work 5 days a week and 8 hours and 15 minutes a day. But I have a break in the morning for 15 minutes, in the early afteroon for 20 minutes and in the later afternoon for 15 minutes. These breaks are paid.

When I am ill, I will likely work at home, as long as the tasks that I must do are computer related. Other tasks cannot be completed. When I am very ill, I won't work at home either. I also go to work, when I am just slightly ill; I can manage that.

Notice that I work 40/41 weeks a year (depending how many weeks a year has). The 12 weeks that I do not work, are not consecutive; they are divided over the year.

After 8 hours of working, I am not completely exhausted (unless I am slightly ill). I must go shopping, eat, cleaning the kitchen as far as it became dirty. Sometimes I have singing lessons and two meetings each month.

I work 5 days of 8 hours, consecutively.

These hours include lunch and an undefined number of coffee/sanitairy breaks, and as long as my work is done in time and to expectation, noone is counting.

When i get home, i need a bit of time to recover and reset from 'professional' to 'relaxed' mode, but my evenings aren't wasted and i get to spend my weekends doing stuff i want instead of only recovering (usually; if i had an intense week, i might need the entire saturday or sunday "off-planet")

Maybe you can get a weekend job? That way you'd only be working 2 days. Then if that goes well maybe get something part-time in the week?