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That's interesting - do you ever take advantage of unpaid leave?

• teekert 10y ago
  Definitely, most people do. I now have Parenting leave so it's less needed (the 1000 hours), I take it regularly. This arrangement ensures that I can always get my 1 FTE back when I finish the 1000 hours. Currently I take 8 hrs every two weeks roughly. I use it to have some time for myself when the kids are at school, others go for 1 month summer vacation and come back to still have a week of skying and two weeks around Christmas, although we get the 25th and 26th of December off anyway, do you? Then there is kingsday, easter, ascension day, are those days off in the US as well?
  • kzisme 10y ago
    Currently for me (not having children and such) I don't see myself taking non-paid time off. Something about that to me just seems wasteful for some reason.
  • teekert 10y ago
    At below: Wasteful? That is a strange state of mind to me. One works to be able to live and hopefully in a fulfilling position. But my most valuable moments are experienced at home, or on vacation, with my family. If you have enough money to live, eat and do fun things, why work more? That seems like wastefulness regarding life.
  • kzisme 10y ago
    Reply to below: Since I'm fairly young (23) the amount of stress I get from working is relatively low. Sure I could take unpaid days off probably, but that would just decrease my earnings for that year. I normally take one week long vacation a year with my family, but would honestly like to travel more. We only get the 25th off of December off, and 6 holidays not including a floating holiday that we can choose to take off (and if we don't we get another day of paid time off)
    • teekert 10y ago
      I wanted to say that before I had a kid I was much like you :) but my noprocrast kicked in :)