• The coffee is cold, the open space graying and the colleagues are ugly: no doubt, it's back to school.

  • For many French people, this period is naturally badly lived (for us too besides).

  • We take stock to face this professional depression as best as possible.

After four weeks of vacation, we returned to work last week, thinking we were ready for the terrible deadline. Seven days, ten pints of coffee in the blood and dark circles deeper than the post-covid security hole later, the conclusion is clear: this return to work has rolled over us and our hearts are crying for the mojitos on the beach and the invigorating air of the Pyrenees. In order to make our martyr useful for something, and while many French men and women take their turn to offices, coffee machines and "So, you've put down your half-day?" »When they leave at 5 pm, we have decided to compile a few

tips

here

so as not to take too much money during the start of the 2021 school year (don't thank us, we are paid for that).

The first advice is paradoxically to accept to undergo.

Yes, the end of the holidays is objectively sad for everyone, and yes, despite all the interest you have in your job, you have the right to be sorry and to tell yourself that the open space, it's actually less nice than the beach.

“We must not absolutely try to make everything positive.

Recognizing that it is a difficult period also allows us to digest it better and to be fulfilled afterwards, ”suggests Charlène Semay, occupational psychologist.

So yes, getting down at the beginning of September in order to be happy for All Saints' Day may seem like a risky calculation, nevertheless the psychologist affirms it: “There is nothing worse than the denial of negative emotions to make them last.

"

Invitation to calm

Especially as she assures, this

temporary

spleen

generally disappears rather quickly, the time to get used to the rhythm of work and morning awakenings again. Besides, for us things are better, thank you for worrying about it. The opportunity to recall the obvious: "Go to bed earlier, resume physical activity, eat healthier", list on the fly Franck Irson, psychologist specializing in well-being.

In short: ra-len-tir.

He recalls: "The standard error is to want to continue the rhythm of the holidays with the extra work: going out every evening, staying up until no time, etc."

".

This rhythm works on vacation, but with difficulty after eight hours of hard work.

On the contrary to this frenzy, returning to work can be a way to take stock and spend time just with yourself, something rare on vacation if you have a social life (and if it is not the case, we can't solve all your problems in one article, sorry).

Project oneself

However, if you miss the holidays too much and mourning is impossible, there is a solution guaranteed to be 100% effective: plan to leave. "Ideally, when a vacation ends, it would always be necessary to have other vacations planned for later," advises Charlène Semay. So yes, it requires logistics, a lot of days off and a living wage, but the list of virtues drawn up by the psychologist gives something to move on. First, it allows you to forget about the previous vacation, thinking of the following: goodbye to nostalgia and mourning, hello planning. Second, this offers a horizon for your long working days. The famous "more than X weeks before the holidays".

Third, this will make you more productive at work: "We are better when we have a motivation and a kind of reward for our work: in this case, the holidays," says the psychologist.

A more productive job which will perhaps allow you to escape the harsh remarks of your N + 3 "So, I see that we always have our minds on vacation, it is time to get back to it", which is always less in the litanies of suffering at the start of the school year.

See the good points anyway

Certainly, we spent the entire intro of the paper in Tibetan monk mode "You have to accept suffering, that's also what to live", but all the same, that does not mean to see everything negatively either, and this re-entry must well also have good sides for you if you are looking into the bottom of the drawer for your morale. "Finding office colleagues that you like, getting rid of kids at school, taking a break from the frenzy of the holidays, finding your home ...", positivises Charlène Semay.

Franck Irson adds another layer: “It's the perfect opportunity for a new start, to take new good habits, to change two or three things in your daily life, to test things.

So to your resolutions, your liters of coffee and your best colleagues, because your holidays are well and truly dead, your smile is not doomed to join them in the grave.

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