People Working Weeks Eslpod Weekends Americans Forward Days

Americans look forward to the weekend and on Fridays you'll often hear them say, "TGIF," which means "Thank goodness it's Friday," or "Thank God it's Friday." They're looking forward to what they'll do over the weekend. Many of these people are "working for the weekend," meaning that their main reason for working is to earn enough money to have fun on their "days off" (days when one is not working).

People especially like "long weekends," which are 3- or 4-day periods when one does not have to go to work. Long weekends are common around "official holidays" (days celebrated by the government) that "fall on" (are held on) a Monday or Friday. On those holidays, many offices are closed for three days "in a row" (consecutively) and people often "go away" (go out of town; go to another place) for a long weekend.

Sometimes people get tired of working "week after week," doing the same thing over and over again without a "break" (rest; pause). Many Americans have only two weeks of vacation each year, so working week after week can be "exhausting" (very tiring). Of course, some weeks are worse than others, and sometimes people refer to the bad weeks as a "week from hell," describing a week when things were terrible and could not have been worse.

However, there are some "workaholics" (people who love working and do not want to stop working) who enjoy work so much that they sometimes "work on the weekend" or "work over the weekend," coming into the office to work on Saturdays or Sundays when everyone else is out having fun.