Workweek Discussion - Work Free Weekends are for Pus***s
Posted on | July 13, 2008
Image by shredpet501 via FlickrLast week I had a lively discussion with a couple of guys from my team about week days. My theory is that five working days and two free days are just a product of the system and are not natural for all of us.
Let’s look at some workweek history:
The notion of a weekly rest is ancient. The Jewish Sabbath, known as Shabbat, is from sunset Friday to when it is fully dark on Saturday. Sunday has traditionally been viewed as a Christian Sabbath, though not all Christians acknowledge it as such. The weekend as a time of leisure is a rather modern invention. Before the industrial revolution the wage labour force was a minuscule fraction of the population. The day of the Sabbath was viewed as one dedicated to God, not one of relaxation, and strict prohibitions on permissible activities were enacted.
The French Revolutionary Calendar allowed decadi, one out of ten days, as a leisure day.
The early industrial period in Europe saw a six-day work week with only Sunday off, but some workers had no days off at all. The labour and workers rights movements and campaigns by trade unionists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century saw a five-day work week introduced as Saturday became a day of rest and relaxation. This movement began in England. In several languages, the word for “weekend” is an adaptation of weekend, or the term “English week” is used for the five-day work week.
Source: Wikipedia
Personally I do work almost every day, and I love it. I also love taking days off during the week and do not mind making up for them at night or during weekends as long as I can keep working on my own rhythm. So in conclusion I can easily state you should find something you will love doing and you will not mind if it is a work day or a weekend day, you’ll just get the job done!
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