Everyboy's working for the weekend.......

HA! After reading this headline you now have the 1986 Loverboy song playing over and over in your head.

It's true really, we all seem to work for the weekend. Every Monday morning we drag ourselves back to work dreading the week ahead. Counting the days and sometimes the hours. From one day to the next we proclaim it's "THE LONGEST DAY E-V-E-R!!" 

But is it really, the longest day ever? Consider this: The average person starts working at the age of 21 and retires around the age of 67. Well, there are typically 40 hours in a work week, times x 52 weeks in a fiscal year, that's 2080 average hours per full time work year. That does NOT include any overtime hours spent on the job.
Now times 2080 x 48 working years = 99,840.00 hours of work. Now THAT'S a long freaking time!
Mind you, those are just the hours spend at work: aka full time job. 

I haven't even started the breakdown of the job/responsibilities we have at home with family and children. The countless hours spent doing laundry, cooking, cleaning, homework with your children and so on. No wonder we are exhausted. Who has time for anything fun? If you think about it, we spend more time at work with our colleagues then we do with our families. Sad really.

The weekend is the only reprieve we have from the daily grind. Two whole days where you aren't required to shower, get dressed or even get out of bed for the matter. You can just be, slobby self. 
It's the only time where we spend time with family and friends, if we so choose, and drink a little too much. The weekend is the release of all the pent up stresses and anxieties from the week just past.

This is why everybody's working for the weekend......