Back to work after a one week vacation…

Yes, the output of yet another one of my personal “lab tests”…

33 thoughts on “Back to work after a one week vacation…”

  1. Good morning David,

    That looks about like how my vacation stress levels go too. Usually about 3 or 4 days before going back to work I start to stress about all the things I could have done and start asking myself did I get all the things I needed to get done and then comes the “ahhhhhhh, I don’t want to go back to work blues” and so on. Have a great week.

  2. too funny. i just came back to work today after a weeklong staycation and i dont want to jinx myself but my desk doesn’t look too bad and people are not irritating me yet 🙂
    However, I am still on the lookout for another job because i am miserable and bored here. Happy monday !!

  3. too funny. I just came back from a week long staycation and i too felt that sick pit in my stomach on sunday knowing i was heading back . surprisingly my desk isnt too bad and no-one is irritating me yet 🙂 but I am still looking for another job !!!

  4. Sounds like a good time to cut yourself some slack, David. No worries, you’ll get back into your stride soon enough. Glad you had a few stressed-less days. Hope you have an encouraging week!

  5. 1 week vacation is not a vacation to me David. Less than 10 days is torture 🙂 I average around 30 days over the past 5 years with a 28 spot on the way 🙂 I love your technical posts.

  6. I have wondered in the past if these beginning and ending elevated stress levels are truly worth a vacation period!

  7. I quit taking long vacations about a decade ago so I never have to go through that. Rather, I schedule a little mini-vacation each and every day. Keeps me relaxed and refreshed at all times. Of course, I’m lucky to live in San Diego where there is an abundance of mini-vacations just a few miles away from my home.

  8. Hence the need to take longer vacations!

    In May we did something that worked out well. My husband has a crazy NYT editor’s job (6 meetings every day) and I work alone at home freelance. We took one week, drove south to friends and stayed in a cottage at the water’s edge in VA, came home for a week — then two weeks off for me in AZ while he worked there. That was the best two weeks I’ve had in a long, long time. I came home completely refreshed….thanks to three factors: I did not touch a computer for five days; I had my assistant run interference when a client suddenly needed me while I was at the Grand Canyon; I spent 4 days at the GC in silence and nature. That helps!

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