Do you take vacations from your job?

Lerxst

Lerxst

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Not stay-cations
Not a day here or there
No, not retirement

I'm talking about a solid week or more of contiguous days off work where you leave your home for the majority of that time.


Through out most of my working career, being able to take a solid week, or more, off has been really difficult. I think I've actually done it only 3 time in the past 15+ years that I can recall.
I have been furloughed for the period between Christmas and New Years the past 6 years or so but that's not exactly a point where I'm looking to spend money or travel.
 
About once every 5 years or so. Trying to change that to a smaller number. That said, I took a 1 week staycation this summer. Trying to convince the wife we need to go away for a while, not just an extended weekend of yardwork and honeydo's.
 
I just took a week off from being retired! I did take vacation when I worked. Usually 10 days plus my regular days off. Realized that the place would survive without me, and if it didn't they might realize how valuable I was. We were able to bank 160 hours. If we had 160 we had to take 60 hours during the year or lose anything over 160. If you took 60 and had hours left over 160 you got a check for any hours over 160. I was getting 200 hours a year and had 160 banked. I would take my 60 hours and get a check for the remaining 140, which paid for vacation and still have my 160 left in case an emergency vacation was necessary.
 
Yes, all the time. I was just in Italy last week, and the Swiss alps this week. I take about 6-8 weeks of vacation a year, and I try to take a lot of away from home.
 
no.
i can't afford to go anywhere that i'd want to go to.
and if i went to some of those places, i don't think i'd come back to here.
 
Yeah, my wife and I head out for a week to ten days every 2 or 3 years. Mostly National Parks and stuff so nothing too exotic or expensive.
 
Rarely. Medical bills, etc., have pretty much wiped us out.

And those staycations where you work on a backlog of backbreaking chores around the house are the bane of my existence.
 
I'm a school teacher, so I stick to the allotted breaks. We just started traveling on the in the past year or so, it was always stay-cations until then.
 
Yes. Two weeks at a time twice a year to Florida, May and November usually. That leaves me two burner weeks the rest of the year. I’ll usually take a full week somewhere else then the rest in days here and there.
 
Vacation! For 15+ years, I really didn't ... ever. Maybe a day or two off a year.

Then when I was a corporate road warrior, we were strongly encouraged to take vacation. With the huge asterisk of "except when you'd like to." But yeah, a couple of trips a year, usually a week or so.

Somewhere in the middle of the corporate stuff, I took two different year-long breaks, where I traveled extensively.

Now I'm a teacher. During the school year, the idea of 'vacation' is laughable, although there's really nothing funny about how the job devours your life.

But I get the summer off. And I have shitloads of FF miles left over from corporate life, plus I banked that money, so, yeah, I go on trips. I'd go on more if we didn't have too many cats and my wife weren't overworked (if I screw off, I'm essentially sticking her with more chores).

Oddly, after all of the travel, now staycations seem like a novelty (and I'm fond of where I live and my local friends).
 
Last year I took a few, but was able to cash out on the remaining days. This year I seem to take them becasuse we are slow. We are a high tech machine and design shop. The trade wars are hurting our semiconductor manufacturing customers.
It's been a while since I planned a week off to go somewhere.
 
It is very difficult... but I have made a point of doing it at least once if not twice a year.

They are deferred work days... you need to plan ahead on some work, and unbury when you get back but it is a MUCH NEEDED, MUST DO FOR YOUR OWN SANITY thing.

We usually go someplace warm and/or tropical... but these last few years have been adding in California or Nashville for NAMM. :grin:
 
I did, when I was at my previous jobs. Here you get a certain amount of holidays per year ( 36 days per year in my last job), which you HAVE to take before the end of the year, or you lose them.

Now, as I am temporarily self-employed, I only take occasional days off
 
I have 4-day weekends every week now, but we usually go away for 4 days when we go away. Next year we are talking about taking a week to go to Alexandria, midway between where her son and my son live.
 
Kid makes it kinda difficult. He's not old enough for us to go the places we want yet. And having to take off for school and religious holidays means we end up in the same places when we do go. And then there's the saving PTO for illnesses component. So it's gonna be awhile.
 
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