Is your typical day enjoyable?

Bevere60

As per the question in the title, do you enjoy your typical day, or is it an obstacle to getting to tomorrow?

BDI

Rough cycle to work, followed by a creative day where I get to keep fit and create something with my work, followed by nice cycle home.

Evening spent usually on couch with family maybe a little walk or kids sporting stuff for an hour.

A lot better than a fella who just woke up in the jungle realizing his plane crashed.

Gregor Samsa

Bevere60 wrote: »

As per the question in the title, do you enjoy your typical day, or is it an obstacle to getting to tomorrow?

Generally enjoy most days. Weekdays, we have the morning routine of getting the kids out to school down to a fine art, so it’s no stress. I like work and the people in it. Then I like coming home to my family. To be honest, I find the weekends a bit more stressful because there’s little structure - lots of things to do and not enough time to do them. I spend very little time sitting in the sofa. But most of them I enjoy too. Off to Dublin for a friend’s birthday tonight, so I’m looking forward to that.

Many years ago, I used to feel like weekends were islands and the weekdays were rough seas I was swimming in. I’d have to struggle for 5 days to get to dry land, then be plunged back into the ocean on a Monday to start the cycle over again. I don’t feel like that now, and to be honest looking back, I don’t know why I felt like that then. I actually had it pretty good, just couldn’t see it at the time. I think my problem was that I couldn’t see where my life was going, whereas it all worked out well (and I learned that even the bits that did not work out at all well, I could deal with).

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Absolutely, every day is a joy and, once all the family are well, totally carefree and filled with activities that are enjoyable.

The Kang

Absolutely my life is good. Even on bad days I am grateful to be happy, healthy and employed.

Cannot fathom how people sit around depressed and feeling sorry for themselves.

Balanadan

Life is good m8.

This is it

There are the odd days that I wish away but for the most part everything is great. I enjoy my work, which I am very grateful for, and I try to make the most of any free time of I have. Unfortunately there's never enough of it!

antimatterx

I feel I live pretty well - i'm only 23 so bear that in mind.

6:30 - Up for work
7:22 - Leave for the DART Station
8:10 - Get the Luas to Dundrum
8:45 - Arrive to work
5 - 6 - Leave anywhere between these times.
6:30 - 7:30 hit the gym. (Or go out)
8:20 - Arrive home.
10:30 - Bed

fmpisces

Bevere60 wrote: »

As per the question in the title, do you enjoy your typical day, or is it an obstacle to getting to tomorrow?

Ah yeah I do, it's great to have a purpose to get you out of bed in the morning (thank you, bladder!) :pac: ah no I mean a job to go to. It's good to keep busy too but now and again I find there just aren't enough hours in the day. Thankfully it's never an obstacle getting to tomorrow but sometimes it's an obstacle getting to Friday :D

Mrcaramelchoc

antimatterx wrote: »

I feel I live pretty well - i'm only 23 so bear that in mind.

6:30 - Up for work
7:22 - Leave for the DART Station
8:10 - Get the Luas to Dundrum
8:45 - Arrive to work
5 - 6 - Leave anywhere between these times.
6:30 - 7:30 hit the gym. (Or go out)
8:20 - Arrive home.
10:30 - Bed

You left out what you wear and what you had for breakfast.

SCOOP 64

The Kang wrote: »

Absolutely my life is good. Even on bad days I am grateful to be happy, healthy and employed.
Cannot fathom how people sit around depressed and feeling sorry for themselves.

All depends on what your going through in life.

Redneck Reject

As they say, every day above ground is a good day. Love my job with very little human interaction, just surrounded by horses and their own personalities. What is more enjoyable than that? Well maybe wine...…...heh.

branie2

It is

Cee-Jay-Cee

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

Generally enjoy most days. Weekdays, we have the morning routine of getting the kids out to school down to a fine art, so it’s no stress. I like work and the people in it. Then I like coming home to my family. To be honest, I find the weekends a bit more stressful because there’s little structure - lots of things to do and not enough time to do them. I spend very little time sitting in the sofa. But most of them I enjoy too...

This pretty much sums up my life too. Weekends are a bit haphazard at times. I like to relax and do little whereas my wife likes being away out wandering around shops etc etc but a bit of both seems to work well for us.

EmmetSpiceland

antimatterx wrote: »

I feel I live pretty well - i'm only 23 so bear that in mind.

6:30 - Up for work
7:22 - Leave for the DART Station
8:10 - Get the Luas to Dundrum
8:45 - Arrive to work
5 - 6 - Leave anywhere between these times.
6:30 - 7:30 hit the gym. (Or go out)
8:20 - Arrive home.
10:30 - Bed

At 23, that sounds like a miserable “existence”. Bed by 10:30pm? Jesus.

Wanderer78

EmmetSpiceland wrote:

At 23, that sounds like a miserable “existenceâ€. Bed by 10:30pm? Jesus.

Common I'd say, particularly in Dublin

JeffKenna

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

antimatterx wrote: »

I feel I live pretty well - i'm only 23 so bear that in mind.

6:30 - Up for work
7:22 - Leave for the DART Station
8:10 - Get the Luas to Dundrum
8:45 - Arrive to work
5 - 6 - Leave anywhere between these times.
6:30 - 7:30 hit the gym. (Or go out)
8:20 - Arrive home.
10:30 - Bed

At 23, that sounds like a miserable “existence”. Bed by 10:30pm? Jesus.

If you're up at half six that's a reasonable time to be in bed for.

Edgware

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

At 23, that sounds like a miserable “existence”. Bed by 10:30pm? Jesus.

You obviously havent a clue how working people operate during the working week

arybvtcw0eolkf

Bevere60 wrote: »

As per the question in the title, do you enjoy your typical day, or is it an obstacle to getting to tomorrow?

I'm a soldier, I love my job. I love being a soldier, sure I'm doing it 34 years now!.

I'm also still very fit and healthy. I cycle to work (40km per day), I still get to train Judo, run and swim.

In the evening when I'm chilling I'll take the mutts out to the beach for a walk, its a beautiful beach (Portmarnock).

I could do with better quality sleep and more of it but otherwise I've great days.

Tonight I'll go to the local and sit at the bar with a bowl of chicken wings & my kindle and I'll chill da'fuc out.

I've great days.

EmmetSpiceland

Edgware wrote: »

You obviously havent a clue how working people operate during the working week

I’d be very shocked if the average “professional” 23 year old is going to bed at 10:30pm on weeknights.

Do you get to bed that “early”? I’m in my 40s now and I’m lucky to be in bed by 11pm and I’d look to be getting, at least, 30-40 minutes of reading done.

When I was 23 I think the only times I was in bed that early was if I was sick!

Graces7

Learning to live at peace within increasing limitations gives great simple pleasure. and it is learning! I carried on with very active work funding my overseas "family" who rescue abandoned wee ones in Nepal way after I should have stopped so still winding down.

Each day is rich in so many ways in the layby of my sequestered life. Berry picking and watching the rows of jam grow and grow.. knitting... watching the skies and ocean... my cats... ah yes! Deep simple pleasures...

Rubberchikken

it is.
love my family love my work love my home. great health. owe noone nothing. food on table.
grateful. so happy out.

antimatterx

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

At 23, that sounds like a miserable “existence”. Bed by 10:30pm? Jesus.

Let me tell you it really isn't. I'm working at a great job that I love, making good money? If I go out during the week, I won't be in bed until 12, but if I'm coming home straight after work, or I go to the gym, I'm in bed by 10:30. I'm exhausted by then.

wexandproud

the fact that i open my eyes at all in the morning is a good enough start .
On the whole i enjoy my days work . I work at sea . The odd day can be a pain in the a..e if the weather is bad , but im in a nice position where i don't have to do too much bad weather . Bed about ten up at 4.45 /5 in summer , 11 ish during winter up about 6.30 / 7 . Early summer mornings are great , love em

corner of hells

It is now.

I've had a bad year or so , a parent passed away, my wife was badly injured in an accident, my own health deteriorated to the point I spent some time in hospital.

I'm well on the road to recovery and I love my job.

Mad_maxx

If my chronic pain is tolerable, everything is fine, if not, it's hard going

tea and coffee

Most comments of the 3 pages here are that the day is enjoyable.
If everyone's day is so enjoyable, Why do people talk about the daily grind, the rat race, happy hump day, tgif etc?
I have to consciously remind myself to stop hastening towards death, and stay in the now. I find it a challenge.

Yer Da sells Avon

As sad as this might sound, the only thing I enjoy in day-to-day life is my job. I enjoy it to the extent that it doesn't feel remotely like work. I go to bed looking forward to getting up in the morning, like some kind of freak. It's the days off that I don't like, so I offer to do overtime as much as possible. I used to enjoy doing nothing (and I really was very good at it), but my ability to have 'fun' or gain any real pleasure from anything has atrophied in recent years. I've a week's holiday coming up and I'm already dreading it, tbh.

nthclare

I chose to be living a single life.
living alone myself, have a lot of interests.
my annual mortgage is one 35th of my salary.
I'm a lucky btdrd got inheritance in 2003

160,000 fckn happy days

love my my freedom

plenty of time to settle down with someone

happy days

Strumms

tea and coffee wrote: »

I have to consciously remind myself to stop hastening towards death, and stay in the now. I find it a challenge.

Good point. We need to focus more on ‘living’ rather than just ‘existing’. I in the end learned this the hard way... a friend of mine has a saying and he’s a wise old soul but he’d say.... ‘routine is lethal’ . I laughed at the time as one or two did when we heard him repeat it but I know now he was fûcking right....

Clonmel1000

Love life hate work and commute.

Earthhorse

Wouldn’t say I find most days enjoyable. That’s just my disposition, I guess. I think people put too much pressure on themselves to enjoy everything and always be having a good time when most stuff isn’t really that stimulating.

22:30 during the week is bedtime. That's my vote.

Also yes in general to the title

cj maxx

I am stuck in existing rather then living. Some days are great , the kids make them , most days are boring.
Starting a course soon which I hope will keep me occupied during the day while the childer are at school. And no I'm not a woman

wakka12

For some reason I do. Love getting up everyday, having coffee, picking out what to wear, making a nice breakfast, the little things, look forward to it everyday. Honestly, Im glad that I find relatively mundane things enjoyable, it makes life nice, and Im happy without many of the expensive/exciting things people think make life liveable or worth it,not that I dont indulge but I just dont need them to be happy.

Graces7

wakka12 wrote: »

For some reason I do. Love getting up everyday, having coffee, picking out what to wear, making a nice breakfast, the little things, look forward to it everyday. Honestly, Im glad that I find relatively mundane things enjoyable, it makes life nice, and Im happy without many of the expensive/exciting things people think make life liveable or worth it,not that I dont indulge but I just dont need them to be happy.

Quite lovely; thank you. Yes the so called small things are great! Fresh air costs nothing and nor does bird song or wild flowers. Or the loving company of pets.

mookishboy

Have to work 40hrs a week over 6 days, can do 12 hrs for 3 day and 2ish hours the rest. That gives me plenty of time for my other biz of fixing classic motors. Or do sweet feck all. Left a 12hr shift job in leixlip for this and im so much happier.

rosmoke

7:55 wake up, quick shower and leave in 15 min
8:30 arrive at work
5:30 leave work
5:45 arrive home, prepare food, if I wanna do shopping it will take another hour at least due to traffic so just use what I have
Outside it f* rains all day, it's cloudy as **** and windy every f* day.
So waste time on Netflix and get to bed, thankfully I'm leaving west of Ireland soon.

Steve

I am self employed the last 3 years... it's tough a nails sometimes but would never go back to the commute.

Wake up at 8:00 in work by 8:15 (morning coffee). Finish whenever the work is done..

Upforthematch

I think my day gets better as it goes on. It becomes enjoyable at 7pm!

Come 7pm I get to throw off the work gear and do what I want.

For the next 4 hours I get to go out or do nothing, meet family or friends, spend time with the pets, night class, football whatever...

Come 11pm I'm only getting going. Having to go to bed is the real struggle!

Richard Hillman

Nah, total rubbish

Wake up, go to my pointless job, come home physically exhausted, eat, watch TV, make lunch for tomorrow, go to bed.

Then on the days off I'll do my washing, ironing, weekly shop etc and I'll watch whatever sport is on TV.

I work most weekends and my friends all work during the week, so I have very little human interaction apart from going to work. So my days off are actually quite meaningless apart from listening to the neighbours blare jungle music or whatever they are into.

messy tessy

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

As sad as this might sound, the only thing I enjoy in day-to-day life is my job. I enjoy it to the extent that it doesn't feel remotely like work. I go to bed looking forward to getting up in the morning, like some kind of freak. It's the days off that I don't like, so I offer to do overtime as much as possible. I used to enjoy doing nothing (and I really was very good at it), but my ability to have 'fun' or gain any real pleasure from anything has atrophied in recent years. I've a week's holiday coming up and I'm already dreading it, tbh.

What on earth do you work as?

I am the exact opposite of this and dread going to sleep thinking of work the next day.

The Crazy Cat Lady

yes it is, i don't work but I receive some support with living as I have Asperger's, we have some laughs when we're doing our things some of it is stressful as I don't socialise with people well, but for the most part it's enjoyable. The rest of the day is my own so I do my own thing then

Leg End Reject

Some of the replies here are sad to read. Everyone should find something they love to do in their own time, life will grind you down fairly quickly otherwise.

The 9 to 5 is a pain for me, but I enjoy life outside of work. There's always a positive to every day, even if it's small.

holliehobbie

Nope. Have chronic health conditions that prevent me from even doing simple things at times. Struggle through work every day. Don't know from one day to the next if I'll have a pain free day or not. Don't sleep very much either even with amytriptiline. Endocrine disorders are a bitch to live with especially if you have surgery that's only partially successful and also have a rare presentation of a rare Endocrine disease.

Yer Da sells Avon

messy tessy wrote: »

What on earth do you work as?

I am the exact opposite of this and dread going to sleep thinking of work the next day.

I drive buses. I fell into it totally by accident. I hated it in the beginning - I used to vomit with anxiety every morning before work, and I lost four stone in my first six months. But I gradually got used to the whole "driving an 11 metre vehicle, full of people, through narrow streets without hitting anything or killing anyone" aspect of it. At some point, I started to find it all very easy and immensely satisfying.

I'm very aware of how lucky I am. I've had jobs in the past where most of my weekends (from Saturday evening onwards) were spent dreading Monday morning.

Raconteuse

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

At 23, that sounds like a miserable “existence”. Bed by 10:30pm? Jesus.

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

I’d be very shocked if the average “professional” 23 year old is going to bed at 10:30pm on weeknights.

Do you get to bed that “early”? I’m in my 40s now and I’m lucky to be in bed by 11pm and I’d look to be getting, at least, 30-40 minutes of reading done.

When I was 23 I think the only times I was in bed that early was if I was sick!

They have to get up really early for work - what would be the point in staying up just to watch tv or read or go on the internet when that'll just shorten their sleep and make them exhausted. That's what would be miserable. They probably don't fall asleep immediately anyway. Plus you're gonna be tired if you're up at 6.30 every morning - what's the point in staying awake when you're tired? I thought less sleep was needed as you got older too. I definitely needed more sleep when I was 23. In college I used to have sleepathons that there is no way I could do now.

Graces7

holliehobbie wrote: »

Nope. Have chronic health conditions that prevent me from even doing simple things at times. Struggle through work every day. Don't know from one day to the next if I'll have a pain free day or not. Don't sleep very much either even with amytriptiline. Endocrine disorders are a bitch to live with especially if you have surgery that's only partially successful and also have a rare presentation of a rare Endocrine disease.

That is hard. I have CFS/ME to a disabling degree and chronic pain is a part of that. But I am way past working age so can live as and how I can. Which varies daily.
Being alone need answer to no one.

Y;day I walked so today is crash... COoked for three days also so that is sorted. I revel in the small things I can do. Really revel in them

Even tday when breathing hurts I love life. thankflu for effective pain relief