In scheduling my vacation to Iceland for the first week of May 2010 I realized I will have been on 6 vacations in the past year: Europe (Germany, Austria, Italy), Hawaii, New York, San Francisco, Rio de Janiero-Brazil, and Iceland. How can I take that much time off work?
I have worked at the same job for nearly 4 years. I get a good amount of vacation time and the time I don’t use carries over to the next year. In addition I can use flex time instead of days off if I have been working a lot of extra hours. My ability to take time off is definitely a perk of the job.
You can still travel without having a ton of vacation time. In fact, I prefer shorter vacations. I found that two weeks in Europe was plenty of time for me. By the end my feet were killing me and I couldn’t appreciate what I was seeing as much as I would if I was full of travel excitement. I went to Hawaii in September 2009 and only took two days off work. Monday was a national holiday and I was gone over the weekend. It was a short vacation but was relaxing and since there wasn’t much I wanted to do in Hawaii was plenty of time. Most of my trips include being away on the weekend to minimize days off work. However, I do like to have a day to rest up before going back to work after international trips.
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