I had one in 2008 and an earlier one in 1999. With the first one I was back at work on day 4 post op and only had some minor soreness at the incision sites, but after the second one it took a good 3 weeks to be back to normal again as I had a lot of tenderness all over my stomach and found it hard to bend over and I had major shoulder tip pain for 2 days afterwards. Both of them were very straightforward, but I put it down to my age and the fact that I also had 4 kids by the time I had the second one so I was doing more after the op. I think you'd be best to book a week off work because you just don't know what your recovery will be like and you don't know what they will find in there - you could be under for a lot longer than originally thought and they could remove quite a bit of endo if they find it.