How to use weekends for mental health

&gt; Out of 52 weekends, I didn’t work more than 30% of them.<p>Assuming you are working a standard Mon - Fri, the correct amount of weekends to be working is 0.<p>There is some tradeoff point if you make overtime and you need the money. If you are salaried, then just say no.<p>I occasionally get asked to work a late night or a weekend. It&#x27;s never a real emergency - nobody is blocked, it isn&#x27;t software that impacts live users, etc. It&#x27;s just scheduling fails by some middle manager somewhere. My answer is always the same:<p>&quot;Oh, sorry, I can&#x27;t. Already scheduled.&quot;

I enjoy family weekends; I enjoy short trips over a weekend sometimes.<p>But the weekends I really treasure are when I can go full nerd-out on some electronics or electronics&#x2F;firmware or pure software side-project. Even if it’s just a 3 hour uninterrupted block (both not interrupted but also knowing that you won’t be) each day, that’s pure bliss.<p>No Jira tickets, no sprint stand ups, no estimates, no slack brush-brushes, no zoom calls, just nerding out.

If you think you mental health is something you can do two days a week you&#x27;re on the path towards stress related disease and burn out.

Don’t work weekends. Don’t read the news. Spend time with loved ones. Make art or enjoy art.

Saved you a click, these are only advices among the ballast:<p>&gt; For starters, try to disconnect from work and social media. Dedicate some time to yourself and do something that makes you happy, whether it’s reading, going for a walk, or spending time with family and friends. You can also use the weekend to catch up on sleep.<p>&gt; That’s why professionals recommend taking a break from work at least one day each week. And not just any kind of break — a real break. That means no checking email, no working on projects, and no worrying about what’s happening at the office.

How to write platitudes for clicks.

I remember when I had weekends it was marvelous. Now I have a kid and there are no weekends or free nights

&gt; You can also use the weekend to catch up on sleep.<p>Even if I agree with some of this article, this quote is just blatantly false. You can&#x27;t catch up on sleep.

You work 5 days a week and just to take two days off for your mental health and recovery so you can go back and do it again the next week.

You can&#x27;t &quot;catch up&quot; on sleep. The only way to get enough sleep is to have a schedule that you stick to.<p>It&#x27;s ok to think about work off hours. Write down your thoughts, do some meditation practice to learn to let the work thoughts flow by and notice them, but let them go.

A lot of the stress comes from not wanting to do boring stuffs in weekends, so yeah I actually hate weekends from time to time.

I&#x27;d hate to need breaks from my work for mental sanity. Sucks to be normal.

Alternatively, use the entire week for health. Mental and physical.<p>Everything in moderation.

In other words: how we don&#x27;t even have weekends anymore.

Tl;dr don’t work on the weekends, do something that makes you happy<p>I have no idea how such shallow faff got on the front page.