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I would rather have a 6 day work week with 2 months of paid holidays every year. There isn't much you can do on a 3 day break that you can't do in a 1 day or 2
by frontman1988 5y ago
I would rather have a 6 day work week with 2 months of paid holidays every year. There isn't much you can do on a 3 day break that you can't do in a 1 day or 2 day break. But a month long break and you can do crazy stuff like hiking in Papua New Guinea or sailing across an ocean.
- handrous 5y agoWe could just have 8 weeks of paid vacation by law and not also work 6-day weeks. That's not so far from what other countries do as to be obviously crazy or unreasonable.
- maximus-decimus 5y agoWhat you can do with 3 days per week instead of a month per year is to set good habbits. Fit a sport into your schedule, learn music. Anything requiring discipline is gonna be much easier if you're able to build a daily/weekly schedule around it.
- DoingIsLearning 5y agoWhy trade away your year for 2 months? 40 hour per week with 40 days PTO is not very common but in larger companies in Europe is not unheard of specially for senior ICs.
- lolsal 5y agoLife happens outside of two months a year, though.
- frontman1988 5y agoYet those two months will be more memorable than the ten months of monotonous life. I just feel work and related city life bullshit stays with you even on the weekends. There is some fun in just escaping. Or maybe I am too much vacation starved due to covid lol.
- lolsal 5y agoI would urge you to reconsider your work/life balance. Trading 10 months for 2 seems like a poor trade. A 4 day work week automatically gets you 52 extra days a year. If you have flexibility in the day of the week, it's very compelling.
- octodog 5y agoI don't feel the same way but that's totally fair enough. Do you have any opportunities to take unpaid leave and use some savings for that 1-2 month period?
- dukeyukey 5y agoArguably that's what savings and sabbaticals are for. I've had several colleges take an extended (albeit unpaid) holiday to go travelling or sailing or something. I'm not saying a load more PTO isn't worth it, but there are definitely ways to do this kind of thing, and it's worth asking your company about it.
- ghaff 5y agoHaven't done this long of a pure personal trip in a while but in a previous (US) job I took several month long trips with an otherwise conventional vacation/work schedule. Combination of fairly long tenure at the company, some unpaid leave from taking leave for a Christmas shutdown, and concentrating almost all my vacation on those trips. A 6-day work week means you basically have to take time off to go away for weekends at all. That said, I'm not convinced a 3 day weekend is much better than a 2 day weekend on a routine basis, certainly compared to have the same time allocated more flexibly.