Mondays are a drag! Yes, for many office workers Monday is not a day to which they look forward. For me, Monday gives me purpose for a new week. It’s like a mental landmark that reminds me I have goals to meet and impact to make. This is the main reason I appreciate Mondays. It must have been ingrained from when I sang ‘Mondays we go to school’ in Nursery and Primary School.
There’s a sense of purpose that comes with Monday. Since most office jobs run from Monday to Friday, the weekend is usually off days. I believe this is to be the reason for Off Duty Style on the Blogosphere. i.e Style on days that one is off work. For office workers, this would mean weekends. For retail businesses like shops, boutiques, restaurants, cinemas.....this could very well mean that off-day is Monday; as office workers patronize retail businesses on their own off-days. For office workers and retail owners, it’s sort of like off-days for one sector means on-days for the other and vice versa. Just as the UBC email prompt Day 8 #blogboost opined, ‘we live in mixed times, neither is right/wrong, just different’
Yes, times are so mixed that one wonders what off-days are for a blogger/writer/journalist. It seems people who work online in all journalistic capacity are on all the time; Monday-Monday. This means they have to set off-days for themselves, depending on their own needs.As a teacher, I tend to do work during my off-days. Not work I have carried over out of laziness, but a lot of brainstorming of new ideas, preparation and organizing of teaching materials and teaching aids and ways to deliver a lesson different from how I had taught it before, not for the sake of being different, but from conscious or subconscious feedback from a prior delivery of a lesson. I also work on weekends as I make updates to my notes and teaching methodology both for the institution I work with and for my personal development. It is for this reason; the fact that I do ‘teaching’ work into my weekends when school is in session that I very much prefer to take my workplace holidays seriously and choose to have complete rest. Choosing to disengage from physical and mental processes involved in teaching during these holidays. Though can one completely mentally disengage? That would be bliss in a way.As a blogger/writer, I work non-stop, I work every day, everywhere and at all hours as inspiration comes. There’s a lot to learn and to share with blogging and writing. It’s non-stop work. The most important of all the work processes is that I enjoy what I do.