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You can get on a $500 plane ride to Costa Rica tonight, hostels are from $12 per night and quite fun. There's your serendipity. Just do it.
by DenisM 8y ago
You can get on a $500 plane ride to Costa Rica tonight, hostels are from $12 per night and quite fun. There's your serendipity. Just do it.
- xapata 8y agoOpportunity cost (time not working) is often more expensive than flight and lodging.
- DenisM 8y agoSurely everyone gets some paid vacation time.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> Surely everyone gets some paid vacation time. Not in the US. https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2017/mobile/73-percent-of-all-civilian-workers-had-access-to-paid-vacations-in-march-2016.htm https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2017/mobile/73-percent-of-all-c...
- Avshalom 8y agoAlso technically receiving paid vacation and actually being able to use it are often not the same: in retail us at the bottom of ten end up cashing out vacation at the rate of a few hours a week to compensate for getting fewer hours a week in the slow season but still have enough days scheduled (or are functionally on call) that we can't leave town.
- xapata 8y agoI work for myself. Even sleep has an opportunity cost.
- DenisM 8y agoMarginal utility of time spent working usually declines. That is to say that time off will pay off in increased productivity. Another way to say it, insufficient rest has its own cost.
- crooked-v 8y ago15 days per year, and that's quite lot compared to most previous jobs I've had.
- JBlue42 8y agoWhat are you doing the work for?
- mrskeltaljuice 8y agoRent, bills, debt, children, food. Myself, and most people I know can barely afford to take a sick day. Let alone a vacation.
- xapata 8y agoFor fun? Strange question. Almost as if you were asking rhetorically.
- JBlue42 8y agoNo, that's an answer. I also mistook you for the parent comment. To each their own but seeing travel, or even a short non-work break of some sort, in purely economic value might not be the most healthy outlook. Who knows -- if you were to take even a one week trip somewhere else maybe the time away from your work will give you better insight into it, or even better thoughts/ideas, that might lead to more money / economic power, if that's your goal.
- xapata 8y agoOne can consider opportunity cost without forgetting non-economic value. I take more vacation than most Americans, probably more than most Europeans, too.