Feel happy at work but not so much on my days off. Why?

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I seem to find myself feeling happy when I am at work probably because I'm interacting with colleagues and customers but there have been days when I've been upset or in a bad mood a day before I'm back at work and then the next day I may still go into work still not in a great mood and not really want to talk to anyone. I even feel more motivated to go for a walk somewhere or catch a bus to somewhere if I have a short shift at work. I seem to find myself not as motivated to go out in the same way if I'm on my days off unless I feel I ''have'' to.

I only work a 10 hour contract and sometimes I can have 3 or 4 days off and on those days off, I may find after 2 days off whilst trying to distract myself by doing some hobbies, I'll start feeling quite moody and then when some of my family return from work while I have been off, they won't always want to talk because they just want to come home and relax and not always talk for ages about problems or worries I may have. I seem to find myself not always to wanting to push myself to go out and drive to somewhere and end up staying and then will start feeling as though I am only one wasting my life because I'm not always going out. I feel like everyone else who has days off work are doing more exciting things than me.

I don't really feel like wanting in my spare time to do any volunteering again because I feel as though ''Well, what's the point if I am already in a paid job.'' I'd probably like to volunteer at a zoo or a museum or something but the nearest zoos are still far away from me and there is a museum near me but a part of me doesn't want to volunteer there. I remember when I did do some volunteering before I started uni, but there were some days where it discouraged me from going in and turning up as I wasn't being paid and there were days where we had not much to and just stand at the counter. And also I didn't feel like everybody there was wanting to engage with me. Some of these places only had one or two people working there which seem to be quite boring and some places had people working in there who were much younger than me or much older than me even though I know that it shouldn't matter how old the volunteers are and that it shouldn't stop me from befriending people.