I've had an Unday dream for some time now. It's truly the missing ingredient in a balanced existence. Most important though, Unday will give us the time needed to equalize after Dome & Willy afternoons.
I re-watched the Bukowski documentary, "Born into This," last night. First, if any of you haven't seen it and have enjoyed Buk's books, or just enjoyed Buk for having been a top notch nay-sayer to the work-a-day noose, I recommend it.
That said, one of the points someone in the movie made about Buk was that he not only rejected the dogged busyness of the Protestant work ethic, but the concept of work itself, which he considered a terrible way to occupy the days of one's life. I'm all for the Unday, don't get me wrong, but I don't think it's enough. For a while I thought half-and-half would be fair. Add the Unday to make an eight-day week, and we'd be off Saturday, Sunday, Unday, and Monday (and I know this screws with the whole idea of the Unday as a day of personal diligence before the work week, but bear with me) and we'd work the remaining four days: half on, half off.
But now I think even that's too much of a concession to the tight-ass grind. Let the job have the weekend, and we'll take the rest of the week. Make it an eight day, no-work week that begins with the Unday, runs through Friday, and we can pop into the job on Saturday and Sunday (casual Sunday, if you will). Or we could screw work altogether. I don't know.
I re-watched the Bukowski documentary, "Born into This," last night. First, if any of you haven't seen it and have enjoyed Buk's books, or just enjoyed Buk for having been a top notch nay-sayer to the work-a-day noose, I recommend it.
ReplyDeleteThat said, one of the points someone in the movie made about Buk was that he not only rejected the dogged busyness of the Protestant work ethic, but the concept of work itself, which he considered a terrible way to occupy the days of one's life. I'm all for the Unday, don't get me wrong, but I don't think it's enough. For a while I thought half-and-half would be fair. Add the Unday to make an eight-day week, and we'd be off Saturday, Sunday, Unday, and Monday (and I know this screws with the whole idea of the Unday as a day of personal diligence before the work week, but bear with me) and we'd work the remaining four days: half on, half off.
But now I think even that's too much of a concession to the tight-ass grind. Let the job have the weekend, and we'll take the rest of the week. Make it an eight day, no-work week that begins with the Unday, runs through Friday, and we can pop into the job on Saturday and Sunday (casual Sunday, if you will). Or we could screw work altogether. I don't know.
I'm kind of living it this week. I had off six days straight and now I'm two days on. I'll have off tomorrow, work Saturday and then back off Sunday.
ReplyDeleteI'm already looking forward to my three day weekend next week. I don't care what anyone says, work sucks.