Like maybe the day might still get called monday, but will it have the same or similar meaning (aka people hate monday as the start of the work/school week)?

  • punkisundead [they/them]OPMEnglish
    4·
    6 months ago

    I did not want to steer the discussion into a specific direction by having my own take be the main focus, but I will put write it as a comment.

    I would love to have “mondays” just removed lol. For me the biggest problem with mondays is that they stand for work / school / whaterver kind of thing you have to do. And those things very often are a thing seperated from what I would call living. I did not go to school because I wanted to learn or because it helped me learn things in any kind of self determinated way, I literally had to. Work is pretty similar, I work because I need money to survive not because the things I do at work actually have any meaning to me or because thats how I would want to contribute to society. I would rather do / learn more demanding or harder or more tasks / things if it actually was to the benefit of me or my community or the world. That would actually feel like living.

    So by abolishing work and school I guess we would abolish “mondays” too. If I have to get up on monday its not my revolution

    shutout to !antiwork@slrpnk.net btw

    • jadero
      3·
      6 months ago

      You sound similar to me. For me, every day was “Monday.” Even when I had jobs filled with work I enjoyed and people I liked, I never once felt that it was preferable to any of the dozen or so other things I’d like to be doing. The best jobs, regardless of the actual work and people, were those located in a place I wanted to live and with the combination of pay and hours that let me pursue my own interests.

      I was a computer programmer (something I always did as a hobby) working for an amazing company with amazing people (before it got sold to investor types). I thought that was a great job.

      But it was the salt mines compared to moving to the lakeshore and taking a job looking after a small village where the work itself was some of worst I’d ever done and the people were no great shakes either.

      The commute was pretty much traffic free past fields and trees. Get home, stroll down to the shore and spend 20 minutes or so fishing for supper, successfully often enough. Enough time, money, and mental energy to devote to learning new things through online classes. Building, outfitting, and using a shop. Snowshoeing or canoeing practically on our doorstep instead of having to pack up and drive somewhere.