Hating Mondays can make you ill

Research shows that hating Mondays (i.e. your job) can cause a range of mental health problems including depression, anxiety and burnout. Then there are the physical, emotional and relationship issues that can arise from job dissatisfaction.

I remember times in our careers where my husband and I both went through seasons of hating Mondays, thankfully not at the same time. For him it manifested as anxiety and insomnia from the Sunday night and the next morning it would be nausea and retching. It was not a good season.

For me, I didn’t have the physical manifestations, but I was miserable, depressed and irritable which put strain on our marriage. Thankfully, he’s a wonderful husband and took it all in stride and thirty-five years later, we’re still together.

He got through his phase by changing jobs. It wasn’t that he didn’t love his work, it was that his environment was toxic, so he eventually left the company, got a new job and began to love Mondays again. My work environment was fine, but I felt I was not in my purpose, i.e. I didn’t love what I was doing and I was miserable.

Thankfully that all changed when I was sitting at my desk one day and had an epiphany! I realized that although I was not in my purpose, I was in a journey towards my purpose and that no experience was wasted and I was doing myself and the firm a disservice with my poor attitude. I began to treat the company as if it was mine and that completely transformed my attitude and how I felt about my job and Mondays. I began to love Mondays. So can you.

“Until you can do what you love, learn to love what you do.” – Donna Every