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Lauri
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that you need a vacation? I've been feeling it for a while, but the past few weeks have been especially rough- it's been really hard to focus. I dunno what the purpose of this post is, just airing grievances I guess. There's no way I can take a vacation.
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Thankfully, I just booked a five day getaway today. The best part was that it's 5-4-3 (stay five nights and only pay for three
Have had 2 getaways in jan/feb so feeling pretty good right now.
Funny I feel so more refreshed from a weeks worth of camping than I do if I stay at a resort etc Go figure!
very true!
i don't even necessarily need to go anywhere, just having time off.....works wonders!
thankfully, i have a very generous vacation package.
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
Yeah we've had a few nice days in March, but always intermittent with some kind of typhoon. Plus by the time I get to the weekend I'm too disorganized to have a bike ride or anything planned.
I get a lot of days off, but I don't have any accrued because last summer I cashed it all out because I needed the money. I could go negative, but I don't have a dime to my name to go anywhere (I have many negative dimes to my name actually). I don't even have a credit card right now. The "staycation" thing sounds terrible to me- I'd just spending it freaking out that I should be doing chores or something...
Oh well I don't know why I'm torturing myself. I don't have enough money for food let alone a vacation, and I've got so many weddings later in the year I need to save both the money and the little off time I have. What I can never understand though, is how everyone I work with seems to go on these extravagant vacations...we don't get paid nearly enough to afford luxuries.
LUCKY YOU...I wish I had more vacation time...I use most of it to go to shows and I'm always calculating the time, etc....but the years I've taken an actual vacation and used a week of my time the rest of the year sucked because I didn't much time left to take off as much as I would have liked and needed
learn to camp ... best and cheapest vacations you can ever take ...
oh, and as much as i adore travel...i also love staycations. however, i also don't freak out about what i 'should' be doing. it's my vacation time, so what i should be doing...is whatever i want to be doing. sometimes that IS cleaning/organizing/home projects...other times it's not much of anything....mostly it's a little of both, but it's always restorative.
and hey, there's memorial day weekend right around the corner! even just a 3 day weekend can be blissful, especially if the weather is gorgeous!
peacegirl - you are aboslutely right. i am lucky. i know it.
honestly, i used to have even MORE vacation time as a teacher, now i work in the corporate world. amazingly, i don't miss all that time off. it was very difficult for my husband to get time off when i was, so nowadays i actually enjoy my time more b/c it's not dictated by a school schedule (when everyone wants off to be with their kids) and we can choose time off, together. i get enough to make me happy.
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
nah, I used to go camping a bit. I love the hiking part, hate sleeping outdoors. Plus, all I have is a sleeping bag and buying a tent and stuff would be decidedly NOT cheap. On top of that, backpacking alone frightens me. I've day hiked alone, and even then I find myself getting a little nervous, like if something happened, no one would ever know...
there are outdoors clubs/groups in most places ... people who do this stuff always have lots of extra gear ... where is our resident outdoorsman?
actually, I don't have memorial day off. Our vacation days, sick days, and holidays are all one in the same. We get a number of days we can take off, including like thanksgiving day and every thing, and we can do whatever we want with them. Thus, I don't have vacation time accrued=I don't have holidays accrued. Anyway, I've never been one to enjoy 3-day weekends. They always depress me because everyone goes away somewhere and I end up spending 3 days in the house watching the History Channel.
Literally, in the past 14 months, I think I've taken off July 4th, thanksgiving, a random friday for a wedding, 2 days for christmas, and then 2 or 3 days at New Years for a wedding, about 5 hours of which was "vacation" for me.
ok.
differing perspectives....
happy friday!
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
So, in the US, do you get a certain number of sick days (which you will be paid for) but that you can take even if you're not sick?
I feel I desperately need a holiday but one on my own. We have a couple of trips planned, a week at Easter and a couple of weeks in August but, at the moment, I find holidays away a lot more stressful than staying at home! I think I need a solitary road trip!
and i have today off as a holiday from work (cesar chavez day, part of the spring break at campus), i am EXCITED to not have to do a damn thing if i don't want to
"technically" you are only supposed to use sick leave for illness or medical reasons, including family members.
in regards to HOW many days you get, depends entirely on your employer. some get a set # of days and must use em or lose em, others have a much more open system of no pre-determined # of days, just take what you need when you need em.
chica - you bet!
LOVE relax, do-nothing time - enjoy!
and red - vacations on your own can be soooo awesome! :thumbup:
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
good grief ... what are you working for then? ... change it up ... do something ... at the very least ... pick the next nice day and spend 10 minutes doing nothing but having the sun hit you square in the face ... keep your eyes closed tho ...
I really miss those days!
and you totally deserve it!! I cannot begin to think how busy you must be with everything... no chance of getting a weekend away on your own?
so hey, why argue with the guy?
and i love the term 'staycaton', it's something i think all of us were doing before there was even an official name for it! i love exploring where i live, even just getting in the car and picking a random direction to go in, never know what you'll find.
yeah I used to have a lot of friends who had extra gear, which is how I always managed in the past. Now I just don't live near them. I was also in an outdoors club for years, but I quit because I realized I wasn't having any fun- there was always just too big of a group and I never really connected with any of the other members. Besides as I said the sleeping outside thing just ruins backpacking for me. I don't know why I hate it so much, but I've never slept a wink in a tent/sleeping bag.
haha - fantastic!
i love random days off too, good for the soul.
i actually used a vacation day last tuesday to try for 10c MSG tix :oops: - hahaha. thankfully, WELL worth it...scored for both nights. AND just so happened to be one of THE most gorgeous weather days of the year thus far. so, i spent my morning outside in the sun, with my iced coffee...then the frenzy of trying for tix....then back outside enjoying the weather....and then more ticket frenzy.
and yes, agreed. i guess it all depends on what you enjoy. i too LOVE visitng the many interesting and beautiful places right at home, hitting up a weekday matinee film....trying new resturants in the area....sometimes doing projects....just *being*. it's very restorative. sometimes when i take a vacation and travel, just do SO much, i feel like i need a staycation after my vacation. :? so it really depends what you want/need at the time.
well, ya get yerself a cheap flight....and you've always got a place to visit in NY. i may not cook for ya, tho mr. dream might
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
Not really, unfortunately. Maybe in the future.
That you be lovely. One day.....
that's smart to take the day off for MSG tix, that's like a job right there
that's true, after a trip i'm wiped out, just wanna go go go. there's a lot to be said for nowhere, or doing nothing lol i have a big drawing i want to finish up today, i think curled up on the couch by the window with kitty next to me sounds like a good plan
yes.
\where i work, we have no determined # of days. you use what you use, when you need it. granted, if they notice abuse/overuse.....they may question, ask for documentation, etc. bot overall, i think it's probably beneficial to both employer and employee. where my husband works, he gets X amount of hours a year - a very generous amount - and it accrues over time. they do monitor hours highly and people can get in 'trouble' if they use too much of their own time :? they also need documentation if they are out more than 3 days. haha....but overall, i think it's a silly practice. when people retire, many will have months of sick leave they 'earned' saved up, which they then use with some note from a doctor....and use their time that way. it's bizarre. when i taught, you got 10 sick days a year, and if you accrued 30 over time, they would pay you halfpay for those days and you'd start over with your balance. it just makes sense to have an open policy imo, but yea....employers set their own systems.
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
my best sleeps are always in my tent next to a waterfall or some rapids ... but yeah - it's not for everyone ... thankfully ...
hahahaha good advice on keeping your eyes closed
Well when I first started working here, even thought we're professionals, we got paid by the hour (small company, didn't know what they were doing). So, if I took a day off, my pay check was like $200 lower. As I'm barely getting by as it is, I could never take a day off, not even a holiday. Then last summer they went normal and levelized vacation time through the year. As a result, I started getting paid $400 less per month, so I had to cash them all out. I stopped cashing them out because I needed to accrue some in case I get sick or you know, someone else decides to have a wedding. So now I'm getting paid less AND have no days off AND can barely pay my rent AND am completely stressed and burned out.