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Weekend Do-over

A friend shared this on social media. My first reaction was "of course you can". I do that every weekend. I work Wednesday to Friday. So Monday and Tuesday are my 'second weekend'. Sadly though, not all employers offer 3-day-a-week jobs. And it is sad. Sub-consciously we realise that we are spending a lot of time working and not so much time enjoying the benefits of that work. As a result we start to resent the work that we do (even though it's our chosen line of work) because it takes up so much of our time. Sometimes the standard weekend is barely enough to recuperate from a stressful week and catch up on household chores and then it's back to work again. We hunger for more time to actually live life and enjoy it. So how can we do it? 1. Hope that employers realise this great opportunity. Offering a diversity of work options can help them compete for the best employees. Working 3 days per week is also more productive . 2. Team up. Where I us