Days Not Feeling Like Doing Anything

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I’m sure everyone has had days where they just didn’t want to do anything. Or to put it in a better way–didn’t feel like doing any work. Days where you just wanted to loaf around. At my last job I had a few of these days. But I’d tell myself there was one of three things that I could do. One, call in sick, ask for a vacation day so I’d get paid for the day and basically throw a vacation day away, or, two just call in sick and take the day off without pay, or, three, go to work. My final decision was always, unless I was really sick, to go to work. One place I work had personal days. These were days where the employee could call in and say, “I’m taking a personal day,” and take the day off. We had four of these paid days a year but we couldn’t let them build up. We had to use them in a three month time frame or lose them. We also had sick days which we couldn’t let build up. The thing about this job was if we were getting close to losing these days our supervisor would come around and say, “I see you haven’t taken your personal day this quarter so you better take it before you lose it.” Or he would say, “I see you haven’t had any days off for sometime. You better take some of your sick days before you lose them.” Of course, he didn’t mean to take them all at once but to be sure to take them before we lost them. I like working for that company. The owners wanted to make sure the employees didn’t get burnt out. They realized the importance of letting a employee take a day off just to do whatever the employee wanted without any strings attached. I started to write this because this is one of those days where I just don’t feel like doing anything. It may be because it’s a nice sunny day. I went outside early this morning so I suppose that spoiled me a bit. The sky is clear blue without a cloud in sight. It’s a nice fifty-one degrees Fahrenheit (10.5º C) outside. I think I’ll end this and take a hike down to the mailbox.