Preferred Days Off

[Silurian]

The hours that you work each day should be considered.
If you start work early you can do things late afternoon when things are still open.
Same goes for starting late as long as you do not sat up too late then sleep in.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

I prefer weekdays and spring-autumn for holidays. Always trying to avoid the tumultuous mobs.

 

[Ryika]

Friday + Saturday.

That way, your week starts on the day when the city is as calm as it can be.

 

[civvver]

When you have kids it really doesn't matter. Any days off are just consumed catching up on family stuff and by family stuff I mean like housework, running errands, taking them to activities, as well as going to do things together like see sesame street live or disney on ice crap. Back to back days off is probably better for that so weekends for me I suppose.

If I were single I would like Sunday and Monday. I prefer back to back days cus otherwise I feel like I have to reign in my day off early to get back to work. I don't mind working saturdays though cus office is usually quiet and then you could go out saturday night, have a full sunday and a monday when everyone is at work to get stuff done if you want.

 

[sophie]

When I'm away from friends (like I am currently), I don't mind weekdays off. Right now I get Fridays off, and not having to deal with the road-rage inducing [a morass of people piled on top of each other, all pistoning wildly into the void] that is Santa Clara Valley traffic on Fridays makes up for the inconvenience of not getting to go out and do things with friends on the weekends. When I move to Chicago, I'm sure my opinion will be quite different though. I'd never take split days off though.

 

[warpus]

That's why you don't have kids.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Days ending in y.

 

[The_J]

Right now I'd just prefer to have a day off...
Needs to be the weekend for me, at least when I have my friends around. Because, as said, most people have these days off, so easier to organize things, and more things might happen during these nights.
Luckily my work schedule isn't that fixed. I normally come late to work and go late too, so I can run errands in the mornings. And even if that's not possible, I can just leave in the middle of work and do my stuff, just need to work a bit longer in the evening. If that wasn't possible, I'd might need to reconsider.

 

[Quintillus]

Friday-Saturday sounds nice. Still easy to catch up with friends - and I'd probably arrange more events on Friday knowing that I wouldn't be tired after work on a Friday - but having a free weekday would be nice occasionally, to see the sites that are only open during the week or aren't open as long on the weekends, as well as to take care of any errands to places with mediocre hours. Sunday-Monday wouldn't be as good since I rarely have social events on those days, and it would thus likely result in me socializing less.

Instinctively I think two days in a row is nice, and it does make road trips a bit easier, but I rarely do more than a day trip anyway. But I wonder if having, say, Wednesday-Saturday might work well? I tend to stay up late on the weekends and be tired Monday, but with only one day off in a row, I wouldn't get as far off on the weekend, and having two separate days out of seven off would mean a day off was never more than three days away, which could be nice. I wouldn't sign up for it permanently, but if I could try it for, say, two months, it would be interesting to see how I liked it.

But the current Saturday-Sunday isn't too bad either.

 

[really]

I work Monday to Friday 9 to 5 which is grand - my work is flexible so I can go out to do errands if necessary.

I worked in retail briefly and I used to have Sundays and one moving day off. Sunday and Monday the first week, Sunday and Tuesday the next.

It worked out that I got a three day weekend every six weeks when the days fell as Saturday, Sunday and Monday.