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sc94597 on 21 March 2016
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COX said:

I wish you the best and I hope you will love USA ;)

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I wonder if it is true that people spent a lot of time working and have much less vacations in USA compared to Europe.

I often pictured americans like people that work too much and don't enjoy life enough. I even heard that often in USA people are afraid to take lunch break because of their boss. However this sounds like total cliché to me.

In the future I will maybe need to leave Europe for some years and this is one of the points that scares me.



Depends on your job, location (different regions have different concepts of "hard work"), and experience. Don't worry many Americans know how to relax and have fun. Often we take it to the other extreme. As for the lunch thing, I have never heard of that. Albeit I have worked mostly low waged entry level jobs while in school. Maybe it is different for certain white collar positions, but people who choose am occupation in corporate positions probably should expect competitiveness. I personally don't view that as the life for me and chose a different route(academia.)