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[Meowingkitty]

Does anyone else out there just hate when the weekend is over and they have to go back to work on Monday? I get so depressed thinking about going back to work, my job is so boring and I know I should probably look for something else but frankly I don't want to start over and there is a chance that I will get laid off within the next couple of years and I don't want to lose 6 months of severance pay. I am just so done with corporate America and at 58 years old I don't know if I can really find all that much.

[JamicaJammer]

I'm 60-1/2 yrs old and trying to find another job, since 35 yrs of working FT has turned out to not have been enough to make it financially with a son in college and one a freshman in HS.

Monday for me means spending 8 hrs job hunting without getting any money for my efforts.

[Mom2Dogs]

I'm 59 this year....I enjoy going to work! DH and I are self employed and we are together A LOT!!! But at least when we are at the office we have our separate duties so I look forward to Monday for a change of pace from the weekend. Sorry you don't enjoy your job, I have never been in that situation.......

[hckynut]

I worked in a manufacturing plant for 33 years, to the day, and much of it was on different shift hours. Didn't meet many that liked their jobs as most of the ones I had were hot/dirty/heavy lifting, and one was expected to "produce" even under bad circumstances.

After I worked there for so many years I learned that the jobs were the best I could do without furthering my education or learning a tradesman's skill. I've always chose "living my life, as opposed to preparing for it" and by that I mean I wanted to do what I wanted to do when I wanted to do it, and that did not include more education or years going to a trades school.

Depressed over my jobs? Nah! I rolled with the good and the bad parts of them. Some jobs were better than others, but in all those years I can say I had only 1 job that I actually didn't mind doing. The others were jobs back breaking(and I mean physically as myself and many on these jobs had back surgery)dirty and hot.

What I found throughout my whole working career was 1 thing. That "thinking about going to work" was much worse than actually working. I decided to work on blocking my job out of my mind until it was time to head out to go there. Can't say I was always successful at this, but it did make a difference in how I felt about life in general.