I Don’t Like Working on the Weekend. Is That a Bad Thing?

How successful do you actually want to be?

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I dislike working weekends.

I love publishing on Medium, reading people’s work, and working in general, but on the weekends, that love goes into hibernation.

I write every day, no matter what, but everything else becomes kind of a drag.

I don’t want to edit submissions to my publication or even post on Twitter. All I want to do is read, watch whatever show I don’t let myself watch during the week, and hang out with my family without worrying about work.

Hustlers and hard workers aren’t supposed to take Saturday and Sunday off — or so they say. You’re supposed to work every single day if you want to be successful.

I’d like to say I feel guilty because I don’t follow those rules, but I don’t. I feel more guilty about the fact that I don’t feel guilty. (I promise to stop saying ‘guilty’ for the rest of this piece.)

Here’s the thing: I know that not working weekends is kind of stupid. While some other writer is working their ass off on a Saturday night, I’m not.

Perhaps they’ll reach success faster because of it, but I don’t care.