You're working: how many days do you get off per year?

[twesterm]

fmc83 said:

twesterm said:

fmc83 said:

@ twesterm

 

It's good, that you really seem to like your job, but wouldn't it be better, if you could take your video game time-out or maybe do some travels each year and just because you seem to live in the wrong country you can't?

It's not that I don't want to take the time off, I don't want to use my days.  I like to collect things and then almost hoard them (I'm not really a hoarder, I just like things).  I know I have a limited number of vacation days so I would rather just save them than use them.

Well, I do that as well. The difference is, that I use half of my days off per year to travel the world for three weeks and you could do that just every couple or three years.

So with my cultural background, I must say that I think that you're exploited...

It would be fair to say I were exploited if I was somehow discouraged from taking time off but it's really I just don't want to take the time off, not my boss doesn't want me to take time off.  I simply enjoy having the option to take a few weeks off even if I'm not going to do that.

-edit-

Just to expand a little, I don't find travel all that relaxing and if I do take a random day off to play games during the week, I just feel like I wsted that day.  I would get up around 11 or so because I could and probably not really get going until closer to 1.  That's just a waste to me and that's frustrating.

We're encouraged to take the random day or two off if we need to (for instance, the guy I share an office with last week took last Monday and Tuesday off to play some games), I just don't really feel the need to.

-edit #2

Hmm, and looks like I actually get 15 days off a year, shows how much attention I pay.