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How much paid vacation time do you get? (or your DH if you are a SAHM)
So after looking at the responses at the travel question, I am surprised that a lot people are traveling this much. How much paid vacation do you get in a year??
Maybe, the problem is that I never travel on the weekends but it seems that a lot of you are going to 5 or 6 different places every year. Please share how you manage to travel so much.
Re: How much paid vacation time do you get? (or your DH if you are a SAHM)
DH gets 4 weeks paid vacation, though one of those weeks is considered "shutdown" from Christmas to New Years, so he has to take it then. I get 31 days paid vacation.
A lot of our trips are weekend trips. So...we'll leave Friday and return on Sunday or Monday. So...a weekend in Prague, a weekend in Munich...stuff like that. Pretty much, anywhere Ryan Air goes, we can do in a weekend.
H gets the same as he did in CH--25 days.
On top of that, there are 12 national and bank holidays here that he gets off too.
Also, since he's on an IA contract he gets travel days to and from home leave.
So in total he has 39 paid days off. We do a lot of long weekends and adding trips onto a business trip he already has to take--like next week in Europe he's taking zero days off because I'm tacking a holiday and two long weekends onto a conference he has to attend.
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This might be a silly question but if you travel on the weekends when do you usually leave? Friday morning or Friday after work? When do you get back on Sunday?
Do you feel that you have enough time to see the place?
Airplane tickets must be more expensive if you travel on the weekends.
What we usually do is do a weekend trip once a month. We either leave Thursday after work (so we only take Friday off work) or Friday morning. If we don't leave until Friday after work, we'll take the following Monday off work (and sometimes, we'll do this anyways if it's a place where we want to see lots of things).
As for seeing it all...probably not, but it does give us a taste for the places, and has really narrowed down our list of places we'd like to return to, if that makes sense.
As for tickets...we usually plan these trips well in advance, so we buy from Ryan Air (typically) around 3 months in advance...even though it's on a weekend, it's really not that expensive. Other places, we just try to fly United and use our miles if we can.
I get 33 days + bank holidays (about 12 days). H is his own boss so his days are unlimited but unpaid.
For weekends away, we always stretch them a bit: it's a bit short & tickets cost more on Fri/Sun flights.
We tend to go on a Thursday after work and come back a Monday or we piggyback it to a bank holiday weekend (if booking well in advance as that's also pricey).
I'm a SAHM and my husband is self-employed, so technically, it's unlimited. Sadly, a little thing called money gets in the way and so we only take 2-3 trips a year.
Edit : Ah, paid, I should have read that a bit closer. In that case, zero.
I work for myself and have really busy periods and really slow periods. When I don't have any big projects going on, I take advantage of that time to travel with DD. DH usually stays home holding down the fort and working. I've taken DD on 3 international trips so far without DH and have taken her for long weekends to see friends and family all over the US tons and tons of times. We plan to do the same when we start living in Paris next month. I have cousins all over Spain and plan to take DD to see them on my own.
The crappy thing about working for myself is that I don't get paid at all when I take vacations. But the awesome thing is that if I want to take a 3 or 4-day weekend, I can try to swing it if I just but my butt to get the work done at odd hours when I am actually home (hello, 3am!).
We try to take 1 big vacation a year as a family and use DH's other vacation days to see his family. I'm hoping that once we're in Europe and his parents have made peace with the fact that we're not flying back to see them all the time, that we'll be able to use more of DH's vacation days to just travel wherever we want.
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DH gets 28 vacation days, plus bank holidays and 5 days study leave for evey subject that he studies. They never count the half days that he takes off because in January, February and March he accumulates so much overtime that he getshalf day off here and there, and by off here and there I mean that after March he takes a half days at least once every 2 weeks and in the school holidays he takes every Monday morning off.
I get 9 days a years, but considering I only work 2 days a week I am not complaining (oh, and I don't work on bank holidays because they don't fall on my working 'days').
We do a lot of RyanAir long weekends too. I'm a huge fan. It's kind of amazing how much you can see of a place in 3-4 days! We're still in the quantity point of travelling. We tend to do one big trip a year (plus a trip to the states) and then a bunch of 3-7 day holidays.
And, DH gets I think 30 plus public holidays. A lot of our travelling is based around conferences he attends so he's working for part of it. Also, he gets comp time so he doesn't really have to keep track.
I get 39 a year plus comp time. I always use every second of it! I can't believe how quickly I got used to having that much time off, I run out every year. My first year working in the states I didn't get a single day off (earned 5 days off a year after the 1st year). It's going to be a horrible adjustment if we ever move 'home'..
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I get 25 days (plus 2 personal days)
However, I actually carried 2 weeks over from last year, so that gave me around 35 days total this year. Add on the fact that I had business travel that ended up taking me to Rio, and it means a lot of travel (between vacation and work, I've been on the road 9 of the last 11 weeks).
And, just to make this year even more ridiculous... I got very sick while I was in Las Vegas, and because I was sick for so long, I get back the vacation days that I was ill! Right now I'm planning to just carry those days over to give me 30 (+2) next year.
I get four weeks plus bank holidays.
A lot of my travel is for work, and I try to extend those trips when I can. Sometimes I will also go to a city when my DH is travelling--hello free hotel! When I do that, sometimes I work from the hotel/from a coffee shop around the city. This year, I visited him in Stockholm and Hamburg, and last year, I went with him to Dublin.
In actual 'vacation'--not visiting family and not for work--it was actually only one weekend that DH and I took together and then a couple of days when my dad was here.
DH gets none. He's paid by the hour, minimum wage.
I'm a teacher so I get school vacations off with pay. In my district they do not pay over the summer. It probably works out to 4-ish weeks paid vacation total but of course I don't get to choose when. I also get 15 sick days and 3 personal days per year. Thank you, teacher's union.
Of course I get no paid maternity leave and the district doesn't offer short term disability. So that sucks.
I thought you usually have to buy STD in the US. I agree this sucks balls, I just thought it worked this way.
I had a friend who had ops on both of her feet and was out of work for about 2 months per foot she did it 2 years in a row. I know she had to buy her own insurance and she works for a hospital.
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We both get around 5 weeks, plus some national holidays (I get more of those than FH does). My workweek is officially 36 hours though, so since I work 8 hour days (or longer, usually) I get the Fridays off every other week. Also overtime doesn't get paid, so we have to compensate those hours, which has left me with boatloads of paid time off (doing 3 months of 12-14 hour days, plus some odd jobs on weekends gets you a LOT of extra hours
).
I don't think we can take more than 12 or 14 days with us to the next year though, unless there are 'special circumstances', which are usually not too hard to make up (boss needed this project done, so I couldn't take time off, so it's not fair to take away my vacation = extra rollover time approved).
We usually do 1 long vacation (3 weeks) every year and then some long weekends and between Christmas and New Years we generally just stay home.
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