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Mondays Are the Worst, Data Science Proves (qz.com)
An anonymous shares a report: People who are miserable on Monday have lots of company. It's the worst day of the week for millions, according to researchers at the University of Vermont Complex Systems Center who analyze Twitter messages for happiness sentiment. Mood tends to improve during the rest of the week, peaking on Saturday, before beginning to crash again, according to data based tweets since 2008. In this analysis, the university's "hedonometer" takes a random sample of about 50 million Twitter posts each day, which is roughly 10% of all the site's message traffic. The researchers have assigned average scores to more than 10,000 commonly used words (from 1 to 9, on a scale of increasing happiness), which are used to measure a particular day's happiness. The data can also offer some insight into how populations have responded to major events. The day after the mass shooting in Las Vegas on Oct. 2 was Twitter's saddest day on record, according to the University of Vermont research. Another low was recorded on May 2, 2011, when Osama Bin Laden, the terrorist mastermind behind thousands of murders, was killed. Rather than clear positivity, language used on Twitter "reflected that a very negatively viewed character met a very negative end," according to the researcher's website.
as it leads to fewer incidents. Monday is the worst day
I don't have bad Mondays, in general. I love my job - not ever moment of it; people and situations will occasionally annoy, but in general I'm a happy camper at work. If you don't love your job, then you should either find something else or find a way to love it. There's no extra reward for going through life miserable.
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The first ten million years were the worst, and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.
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And yes, more often than most other days, Mondays suck.
Check your premises.
I can't deal with all the shitty attitudes of Monday. I start my work week on Tuesday when people have gotten over all that. On Saturday when there's less people I feel like I have a more relaxing catch-up day where I can be productive, tying up loose ends and doing what I can to prepare for the next week.
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There are jobs that don't suck but this is one of those myths that floats around and makes people feel dissatisfied thinking the grass should be greener. If people genuinely loved their jobs companies would make you pay to get to do it rather than pay you for doing it. That is how life works.
Whatever your job satisfaction level, your satisfaction level with your free time, family, and friends is going to be higher so there is plenty of reason to be happier about the weekend and have some level of reduced satisfaction about it ending and having to go back to work without being miserable in your job.
The two days of the week I look forward to most are Sunday and Wednesday, since those are the days of greatest fellowship with my brothers and sisters in Christ.
Monday isn't a drag at all - just the opposite really - as I get to spend time developing my devotional for Wednesday evening group and studying for my Tuesday evening bible class. It's always a day of being richly in the Word so I would hardly call it the "worst" day.
I think Thursday is probably my least favorite day, which is not to say that it's a bad day... it's just coming down from Sunday -> Wednesday marathon of scripture, prayer, and fellowship.
Personally, I'm not over keen on Tuesdays. At least on Monday you're arriving fresh to the fray. By Wednesday you're half way to the end.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
somebody has a case of the Mondays.
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
Data science is one of those modern terms that currently means whatever you want it to. In this case, the article was referring to "large wombat of the ugly variety". Either that or "sampling and statistics" - I get those mixed up all the time.
That is all.
It also means that I have to deal with dozens of emails at once that accumulated over the day rather than addressing them as they come in.
Obvious solution: Bring your laptop to the meetings, and answer your email while they are discussing things that don't pertain to you.
When your boss is speaking, periodically say something like "That is a good point", and then type quickly while nodding your head. Everyone will assume you are taking notes.
Stephen Stills wrote a song about it.
It might have been David Crosby, but I don't remember - and probably neither does he.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."