NationStates Jolt Archive

In nations where Christianity is firmly rooted into society, the Sunday tends to be a day off for most people. Shops are closed (especially outside city centers), there is no school, less public transport and churches hold masses.

Some (lucky ?) people also get the Saturday off - hence the glorification of the "weekend".

However, Jews observe the sabbath on Saturday. Muslims like Friday. And I have no idea what the Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs and so on consider a holy day, let alone what the nations they live in consider a day off.

So.. share your culture with us, oh noble citizens of NSG.
Poll coming.

In nations where Christianity is firmly rooted into society, the Sunday tends to be a day off for most people. Shops are closed (especially outside city centers), there is no school, less public transport and churches hold masses.

Some (lucky ?) people also get the Saturday off - hence the glorification of the "weekend".

However, Jews observe the sabbath on Saturday. Muslims like Friday. And I have no idea what the Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs and so on consider a holy day, let alone what the nations they live in consider a day off.

So.. share your culture with us, oh noble citizens of NSG.
Poll coming.

I do pretty much every day.

Lately:
Monday: Uni all day
Tuesday: Uni all day and work at night
Wednesday: Uni all day. Volunteer stuff I do until late
Thursday: Work almost every week
Friday: Uni all morning, work all afternoon
Saturday: Work all day & night
Sunday: Work almost every week. Weeks that I don't work I do volunteer stuff.

So, I get a Thursday off a month... sometimes :)

I am a music student. While our classes do not convene on saturdays and sundays, in practical terms we don't really get a day off.

Gap year ftw then :D

in cameroi the first day of every 19 day month is the day for community councils and a majority of religeous observances. much as we love earth's moon and its cycles, we taken further liberties with the 19 month calandar of 19 days each and devided them into three, six day weeks. each week there are two rest days, meaning most work scheduling is on a four on and two off basis, with every third weekend being a three day, with feast day, the first day of each month, being the middle day of it.

personally, i've always favored tuesday and wednesday for days off in the mundane world. but any pair of consecutive days everyone else ISN'T assigned as their rest days is fine with me. even if one of the two is.

this has to do of course, with what my father did for a living when i was growing up. there are certain jobs/bussinessess, that require 24-7-365 staffing, highway maintainence crews, the power company, certain functions of the phone company, law enforcement and so on. my dad worked for the railroad, which is one of those. and the way the railroad, and i immagine most of them handle positions which reqire full staffing continuously, is to have three shifts of course, and then to stagger the rest days of each shift so a relief shift can work their assigned rest days, and then there's a travelling relief that picks up the odd day still left over each week from that.

so when i was growing up, my dad's days off were almost always one or both of them fell during 'everyone' else's normal work week. this was nice in more ways then people who have never experienced it realize.

anyway i got more then just used to the idea, having grown up with it, but actually and strongly prefer the advantages of it.

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We get Saturday and Sunday off from school, and Wednesdays are half-days. Although this past Saturday I was volunteering for about five hours, but it's still a day off from school. I only have a few more weeks until I graduate, though. :)

In nations where Christianity is firmly rooted into society, the Sunday tends to be a day off for most people. Shops are closed (especially outside city centers), there is no school, less public transport and churches hold masses.

I daresay that Christianity is firmly rooted in the italian society... yet
here most shops are open (even in the suburbs). Masses, btw, are held every day, and usually more than once a day, except for some of the smallest parishes in tiny villages. Anyway, no school here on Sunday, and the public transport runs on reduced timetables.

However, Jews observe the sabbath on Saturday.
The jewish shabbath (?) begins at the sunset of Friday and ends at the sunset of Saturday iirc.

Hmmm...

Monday, Tuesday and Thursday I'm at uni all day. On Friday, Saturday and Sunday I'm at work all day.

On Wednesday I only have training in the evening. But then, I have so many assignments to do that I've taken to spend the day at uni anyways.

So there we go, I have no days off.

Unless somethings up, its Saturday and Sunday fer me....I've remote access now though, so even if I have to work I can log in from home...

The jewish shabbath (?) begins at the sunset of Friday and ends at the sunset of Saturday iirc.

Correct. In winter that often requires them to go home an hour earlier on friday - in summer it does not affect ther friday working hours.

If by that you mean the days I don't have to go in to the office, then Saturday and Sunday. However, there is no such thing as a day off in this apartment -- if I took even one day off, entropy would reign supreme again.

saturday and sunday, though fairly often i will do a little bit of work on either of those two days, and sometimes we'll be running events which require me to be travelling or setting up stuff for the monday.

but mostly i try to keep my work and private life as seperate as i can, and part of that is at least attempting to not work at weekends.

the reasoning for that is because my parents work 7 day weeks, 10-12 hours a day, and i don't want to be like that.


got a bit of time off today though (gotta go in soon :() cos it were by birthday this weekend :)

I don't get a day off. I get vacations every 6 months though, but I'm still working... and they are only about 2-3 days long and are really stressful and bleh.

I have Saturdays and Sundays off. But Sunday is a bit of a busy day for me since it's the day I do laundry and go visit my family.

Well, I work Monday - Friday, so Saturday and Sunday are my usual days off. However, working in the library of a further education college, I also get college holidays off - but as I have two jobs I still work Monday and Tuesday in holidays (five day weekend!). So for 38 weeks a year, the answer would be Saturday + Sunday, but the other 14 weeks, it'd be Wednesday - Sunday. :)

Of course, I'm currently trying to confuse the matter further by requesting to work flexitime at the Monday/Tuesday job during the 8 week summer holiday coming up. :p

In America, I work for a caregiving agency and they can basically call me same-day and tell me that I have work that day, so I never know ahead of time when I have a day off. I sometimes work seven days a week.

In Ghana, six or seven days a week, usually seven.

When classes start this fall, I have class four days a week and will probably be working the other three.

I don't have the same routine every week, since my jobs are very flexible. On weeks where I'm working, it looks something like this:

Monday - volunteering
Tuesday - Work during the day
Wednesday - Work 1-10pm ish
Thursday/Friday - Work 2 jobs, approximate hours 10-4 and 6-10.
Saturday - Work 1 - 10
Sunday - Off.

And on weeks where I have little work:
Monday - volunteering
Tues/Weds/Thurs/Fri/Sat - usually manage to get one days work in there somewhere :p
Sun - Off.

So some weeks I only get Sunday off (and sometimes I'm working then too). Then other weeks, I have nothing to do. I never seem to manage to get a nicely balanced week :p

What is your "day off" ?
In nations where Christianity is firmly rooted into society, the Sunday tends to be a day off for most people. Shops are closed (especially outside city centers), there is no school, less public transport and churches hold masses.

Some (lucky ?) people also get the Saturday off - hence the glorification of the "weekend".

However, Jews observe the sabbath on Saturday. Muslims like Friday. And I have no idea what the Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs and so on consider a holy day, let alone what the nations they live in consider a day off.

So.. share your culture with us, oh noble citizens of NSG.
Poll coming.

My days off vary each week, I work a 4 & 2 schedule which means that I work 4 days and then have 2 days off.

Honestly don't get days off per se. Even on weekends when I don't have to go to the office I work from home.