Nope. I was traveling last week on vacation and got back to the office on Monday so I can say with vivid memories and strong conviction: definitely not.
Depends on what’s happening at work. If it’s a steady influx of client work and doesn’t require a long string of late nights or jumping on a plane to work 18 hour days on-site somewhere, it’s fine. As it happens, I have also just returned from a two week driving vacation. There is no (Ø) workload, so I’ve been spending a lot of time looking at the places we visited (or didn’t) on Google Earth. Kind of still on a virtual vacation.
I’m with your co-workers. Work is more of a vacation than any vacation ever is.
Every, single vacation for the last seven years has been a family vacation.
I look forward to them, and dread them at the same time.
Also, to all my cousins: For the love of Pete, stop planning your expensive destination weddings at all inclusive resorts in Jamaica (nothing against Jamaica, but due to cousins getting married there, we’ve done it. Several times.) If you must do a destination wedding at an expensive, all inclusive place to have your nice, free wedding: please, please pick a new country so I can experience something new…
There are parts of my job which I don’t particularly look forward to, but I do actually enjoy my job, and I’m good at it. I work easy hours, set my own schedule (within restrictions, but I’m still the final say on when I show up) and have solid healthcare.
Now, if I only made enough money to rub two coins together for warmth every once in a while, I’d be set.
I can’t say that I enjoy my vacation being over, but I do enjoy coming back to work. Those are two different things for me. To help keep it that way, I usually try to schedule a “down day” or two at the tail end of my vacations in order to weather the unavoidable post holiday slump and get thoroughly tired of doing laundry and housecleaning and being a scratching post for our cats.
By the second day back (sometimes the first day) the errands are all done, the house and closets are functional, and I can’t wait to get out of the house back at my job.
'Course, I do realize I’m one of the few people in the universe who mostly LIKES their job.
My vocation is news, and I enjoy it. Last week while I was off there was an earthquake 20 miles from my house, then a hurricane blew through. First hurricane I’ve missed in 22 years.
So even though I liked my time off it could not have been worse timing. Oh and I lost out on a buttload of overtime.
So yeah, wish I had worked and took THIS week off.
I just got back from 3 weeks in southern France, and you’re asking whether I’m happy to be back in Cleveland?
Well, my vacation this summer consisted of spending 9+ hour days framing a house, so yes, actually. 
Kind of? It’s not so much that I’m glad to be back at work specifically, but travel - even travel I enjoy, wears me out and I often feel glad to be back at my routine, which includes being home, sleeping in my own bed, having all my clothes instead of only the ones I packed, and I guess work gets lumped into this.
I think I’m in the minority in this thread, but I love coming back to work after several days off. As a CPS caseworker, I get to go into the office every day to see the people I like, spend the day playing detective, and in the end keep some children from being hurt. It bothers me to just sit at home doing nothing anymore, because in the back of my mind I think “If I were at work right now, would I be able to stop something awful from happening?” It’s a deeply satisfying career, if a bit demanding, and I can’t think of anything else I’d rather be doing with my time. Even weekends seem a bit long by the end.
Of course as a single guy, I can only assume this will change once I have a family of my own at home.