Taking a Day Off When You’re OK

Getting the urge to take a few days off ill from the pressure of your mind numbing, combinational employment, Is a factor many of us take into consideration everyday. Let’s face it, no matter what you do it’s the same state of processes day in, day out.

After a few months, or some times years in the same employment. Its starts creeping up on you. It’s unexplainable, but you know it’s there, twitching in your skin and tingling in your mind. These sensations are known throughout the world. Different social circles define these chemical reactions as:

• The pain barrier.
• The wall.
• The hole.
• Time warps.
• Ground hog day.
• Not long now.

Then the symptoms start:

• The pain of the clock slowing down.
• The smell of the person next to you.
• The verbal exhaust of your boss following procedure.
• The same remuneration package with 3% increase for all you hard work.
• Hearing yourself repeating the same content all day.
• Verbally explaining something to a customer without even thinking of the answer.
• Finding yourself sitting on the toilet for a sneaky ten-minute brake, just to get away from it all.
• Winding everyone up around you to cause conflict and excitement.
• The last five minutes seem to take longer than the whole day.

Something needs to give, something needs to let go, you have used all your holidays up for the year, all 18 days of them.

Your financially sound for the month and everything is up to date. So you hit the alarm clock, pick up the phone and call in for a well-deserved day off, from modern slavery.

It’s not until the phone goes down and you lye back in that cosy, warm bed and wait for it. A rush of endorphin, electrical magic saturates them veins into a state of intensity. Only then can squeeze onto that pillow and have a secret giggle to yourself.

I love you – my sick days off.