Ever since starting work in the IT industry almost three years ago, life has changed in many different ways. The amount of respect that I have for time has now gone up tremendously, after beginning to view a year as comprising of 52 working-weeks and 52 weekends and chartering the course of my life around the same assumptions.

A week used to begin on Monday, with five days of work + evening activities thrown in for good measure, after which two days during the weekend would be equivalent to the Sabbath, travel or laze around or do small work here and there that wouldn't be possible during the rest of the week.

Now there is a new shift in approach that I wish to adopt, and would encourage others to adopt as well. This shift is based on the premise that your life doesn't revolve around your work, and that there are other activities to indulge in outside of the office that can keep you reasonably preoccupied.

I make the assumption that my week begins on a Friday, as opposed to the conventional Monday. Friday morning blues don't happen at all, cause its such a wonderful day. There is not much work to be done at the office (usually) and there is two days of wothla-time to look forward to.

The week begins on a high note, combined with two days of exclusive "me-time", following which, work is then addressed. The high that the entire week's beginning ends up providing will make sure that the Monday to Thursday time-frame whizzes past like the Road Runner.

Hence, I stay up late on Thursday nights to watch the repeat of 'How I Met Your Mother' on Star World, and watching 'Head-Banger's Ball' on VH1 and then crash late, to wake up a bit late on Friday morning, and have a good week. Hence a shave usually happens on a Friday morning, and all that jazz.

Further to this, once the whole weekend shift approach has set in, I would like to propose to my workplace to allow this shift in policy from their conventional Monday to Friday week to allowing an employee a certain amount of lee-way in choosing the two days in the week that he/she wants to take off.

Once this measure has been set in stone, things will take a turn for the brighter. I will choose my weekend days as Tuesday and Wednesday, when I can meet up with other people who chose the same days of the week for their time off. Multiplex tickets will be cheap, parking will be easily available, rush hour will be limited only to office timings, its a win-win-win situation all over the place.

My week has just begun with a decent LJ post. Have a good week yourself.