No. But my vacations aren't usually designed to be refreshing, but rather enriching. Vacation is a busy busy time for me. It's not relaxing. I can relax at home on the weekends if I don't have to work.
And vacation usually means working overtime (unpaid- I'm exempt) to catch up on what I missed, so that isn't exactly something to be motivated about.
Good points, my vacations and work situation are similar.
Mine are too, but I don't work much unpaid overtime. Or to be specific, I have two kids, so it's hard for me to carve out more time for work, really.
It's not uncommon for me to have a 43 hour work week (so 3 free hours) but that's only because I'd skip my lunch break a few days. I have a hard stop on each end of the day. In the morning, I cannot leave for work until my husband gets home from the gym, so earliest I get to work is 7:30 (and that's not every day). At the end of the day, I have to leave by 4:30 at the latest to get the kids before the "drop dead" time.
However, with kid stuff (dr and dentist appts, 4 pm baseball practice), school stuff (PTA projects, assemblies, field trips), home requirements (picking up our vegetables at the CSA, car repairs, home repairs), I almost never ever have two weeks in a row like that. Or, more specifically, I have to take enough time off on some days that I rarely have 80 hours in a 2 week work period. Maybe only hit that 5 pay periods in the last 26. (So I take PTO for the missing hours).
I generally don't have vacation hangover. We try to be "chill" with the kids. Two weeks to visit family, so not terribly busy. Or maybe a week at a National Park, staying in a condo, where we relax, hang out, sightsee, hike, whatever. I do like to have a day at home before going back to work to grocery shop, cook, unpack, do laundry.
I do often have a hard time getting started again, because I don't remember what I was working on when I left. But luckily, nobody works on my stuff (unluckily?) so it's right where I left it.