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I have children and I am infatuated with helping them grow, learn and become good humans. I also am at a job with unlimited vacation and took 8 weeks PTO last
by docker_up 8y ago
I have children and I am infatuated with helping them grow, learn and become good humans.
I also am at a job with unlimited vacation and took 8 weeks PTO last year. So I make up for the days that are boring with my vacations.
I don't feel the urge to "change the world" and I'm perfectly happy working hard at work on interesting problems, and coming home to my family and just being happy, which is the benefit of being almost 50.
- jamieweb 8y agoA job with unlimited vacation? Are you a contractor or remote-only worker or something? Or is this an actual desk job in an office?
- docker_up 8y agoUnlimited vacation is common in Silicon Valley. It's not really unlimited vacation but it's really just a company policy of "work when you need to work, take a break when you need to take a break". Some people are more effective at taking PTO on unlimited vacations than others, however.
- quickthrower2 8y agoDid you have to fight for that time off? Or did you just ask? Did you get any grief in the office for taking so much time off? I am interested because on the one hand there is policy, and on the other there is social reality. I imagine it takes some effort to make an unlimited vacation policy work in a team where some people might begrudge other people having time off.
- docker_up 8y agoNope. My team is very chill. No one keeps track, I don't even fill out anything and my boss is very supportive. As long as I'm doing the work I'm supposed to and I'm performing at a high level, no one cares in my team.
- emj 8y agoMe and my partner took 43 days off each last year, ordinary desk job in Sweden, with paternity leave included in that. My producitvity did not take much of a hit.