Working in Corporate is great

ArthurTalks — Post #2 3 minute read

Thursdays are the new Fridays. If you are like me, working in Corporate London with a job that lets you work from home, e.g. twice to thrice a week, you can see the pattern of having a block of work, kind of shaped like a hump day

You get this work block on Tues, Weds and Thurs that you go to the office, and get an "early" weekend on Friday and an "extended" weekend on Monday. Though I still get the Sunday scaries…

Here's an AI generated image that I "made" that shows this

Time warps into one, with weeks flying by as in theory you only go to the office for 3 days at a time, and each Thursday to the next Tuesday its basically 5 days apart. This eludes to the idea of time flying by and weeks all morphing into one, where I have this feeling often where something I did 2 weeks ago felt fairly recent but can't put my finger on when exactly it was.

I haven't been much of a drinker until I started working Corporate, week in week out if there is a motive for Thursday drinks, we will be there.

Exemplar of London on a Thursday when the weather is above 15 degrees celcius/ if a ray of sunlight is prominent at 6pm.

It's great, everyone's out having a good time. Moods better after enduring seemingly endless winter. People already planning for a potential barbecue in the weekend.

Then it's almost a loop of the week becoming Thursdays to Thursdays, bouncing from one drinks to next week's session. Though this sounds borderline alcoholic, it's a good time to chat with mates/ colleagues and decompress from the stressful week we've all had. Especially with everything that's happening right now.

I always do think if I lived in another country, let's say in Singapore or somewhere where pub culture is not as common, a Thursday is simply just the day before Friday! By having Friday work from home, it allows you to recharge after the few days of grinding, saves time on the long commute to work where many of us in London can take 1hr to 2hrs commuting on sardine packed trains, e.g. Northern Line from Clapham at 8:09am. Not for the weak.

But hey, we all got to make a living somehow. Just try and enjoy it along the way my fellow soldiers.

Nothing else from me, cheers all