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Sunday Is the Best Day to Decide to Quit Your Job
The so-called Sunday scaries can be an internal alarm, warning you that it’s time to make a change
It’s summer in New York. My friends and I have fled the city for rural Connecticut, where somebody’s family has a house with a pool. We grill things, drink things, and enjoy being in a living space where you can stand with your arms out and not hit any walls.
We’re sitting by the pool around noon on Sunday when I start staring off into space, zoning out of the conversation. Without realizing it, I audibly sigh.
“Oh, no,” my best friend says. “Your Sunday scaries are starting, aren’t they?”
She’s absolutely right. The dread of returning to the real world of the work week, where a perpetual list of to-do’s will leave me paralyzed. Sunday scaries: a dumb, cutesy name for some very real feelings.
“It’s not cute at all,” the career coach and mental-health counselor Katherine Kirkinis says when I tell her the name that often makes me feel like an adult baby. She tells me that while Sunday-night angst might not be a clinical diagnosis, it can be an alarm, warning you that something doesn’t feel right. “[Sunday Scaries] are often dismissed by clients because they’re situationally related. That doesn’t…
