Top ten great things about working every Friday night:
I have to work every Friday night. I’ve done this now for nearly two years.
Worse still, all the clients I work for either work late Friday nights trying to finish a project up, or dump a bunch of stuff to be digitzed for Monday. Either way I’m screwed with lots of work on Fridays which prevents me from getting out early.
Sure, as a trade-off I get Sunday nights off, but everyone else wants to go to bed early that night.
So yeah, you might be thinking that working Friday nights is an incredible drag; having to slave away at work while all your friends go out and do something incredibly fun. . .and you’d be right.
But I want to focus on the silver lining of this funny thing called life. In honor of ‘Friday the 13th’, without further ado I present (in no particular order) the top ten great things about working Friday nights:
1. Instead of spending money at movies, restaraunts, bars, etc. I’m making money. Since no one actually wants to go out Sunday, its not like I just end up spending this money on a different night.
2. I usually have ample time (if I want) to search the inernet for fun events occuring during the rest of the weekend. Now I just actually need to do this!
3. I have a built in excuse to get out of things I don’t want to do. Instead of having to tell people that I have to do laundry (or something like that), I just tell the truth: "I gotta work, sorry."
4. Similar to #3, I would undoubtably spend many a Friday sitting at home watching TV or doing something equally as boring. This way, I avoid these "loser moments" because no one thinks it’s uncool to watch a DVD on Sunday night.
5. No hangover Saturday morning. ‘Nuff said.
6. From a diet standpoint, it is much easier to eat healthy going out to eat one less night a week.
7. Similar to #6, most people don’t exercise (or go to the gym) on Friday because they work all day and then go out at night. I don’t have this problem; since I work at night I can easily go to the gym in the afternoon before I start (like I did today).
8. Sure, I have to take a day off (Friday) if I want to fly somewhere for the weekend, but getting to come back on Monday afternoon instead of Sunday night has been a lifesaver a couple of times.
9. Those rare occassions I actually do get out of work early enough on a Friday to do go out make it seem like a 3-day weekend. I get to do fun stuff on Friday and Saturday and still stay up late on Sunday night. Excellent.
10. It gives me an opportunity to update my blog. . .
