Weekend toil

I put a lot of energy into my weekends because I put a lot of effort and energy into my working week; it's the, work hard play hard, ethos I suppose.

I'm one of those people who doesn't believe in the the 50/50 work-life balance...that's bullshit because only being 50% present at work hasn't ever been my thing and I certainly don't live my life at 50% or accept being other than 100% present in it...that 50% life shit is for wankers.

Having said that, I'm working this weekend and that sucks...although I like my work, am good at it and give it 100% when I'm doing it so that's where I am right now and what I'm doing. (I scheduled this post in case you're wondering.)

I'm on a salary plus bonus remuneration with my organisation which suits me fine; I get very well paid. That salary package means that when I work the weekends I don't get extra money, I get, time off in lieu (TOIL).

Essentially, every time I work the weekend (Saturday and Sunday) I get two paid days off to use as I please later on. It's a good situation because I'm happy with my annual income and bonus structure and get to either take TOIL days as days off whenever I want them or if I want to I can save them all up and get paid out in money as well. I like the situation...although don't really like working weekends very much.

Taking TOIL days off means I can take days off with my girlfriend (she doesn't work every day of the week) so we get to spend time together in the working week and I can add them to long weekends or my four weeks of annual leave entitlement as I choose so it's a very flexible situation. But working weekends still fucken sucks.

So...here I am at work, working even as your eyes look at these words, but I've left you some tunes to listen to...Cool fucken tracks in my opinion, but you may hate them and that's cool too.

(This post is for the #saturdayselections concept - sharing music in the WEEKEND EXPERIENCES community on Saturdays.)