When’s the last time you took time off from work?

First time taking a day off in over 2 years. I’m not flexing the fact as that would be sad, but with Covid allowing me to WFH I didn’t feel like wasting vacation days. Got paid out in a lump sum when I left my old company and didn’t want to take vacation at my new company after only a few months. Taking the day off to move into a new apartment so not even “vacationing”. Idek where I would go for a vacation - might keep saving up the days and take a whole month off sometime next summer.

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Don't get sucked into that mentality. You are allowed to those vacation days, so take them and don't look back. If a company is going to be upset for you taking off a vacation day in the first several months, they're clearly a bad employer. 

I take off two months each time I've changed jobs, because I need to recharge. 

 

I take off at least one Monday a month (I hate Mondays, so I try to limit my exposure).  I also squeeze in a week long break at some point in the summer and a couple days around Christmas.  I then use my sick days for all the mundane stuff (Dr. appointments, doing real estate, just having a bad day, etc.).    Gotta prioritize number 1 or you're gonna have a bad time IMO.  

 

I take as much time off as possible. Most of the time it's a day or two tacked onto a weekend - but more recently I've made it a point to take off a week here and there. 

It's also really important that you truly take off that time. I used to take my phone, work laptop and even schedule calls while I was 'out' - which is simply not a vacation. There are certainly important things that come up from time to time - but they are far, far rarer than I think they are. I suggest to anyone that they take a connected less vacation. Leave the work emails, laptop, etc. behind - the world will survive a week without us. 

 

i didn't take a day off for 5 years and then i got burned out and now every day is a day off whoops? or whoops! :-/

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I took a break in Aug and went camping. I have this weekend off and Monday off to do a 70.3 triathlon. Next weekend off is for a wedding in October, then weekend off for November reunion and fight night with my MMA team. December taking Thurs - Tues off for Vegas.

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There are not really belts in Muay Thai but they have them in BJJ which is a great martial art as well. I’d check around neighborhood MMA places for reviews. It is life changing.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

I took a couple hours off a few weeks ago to go to a rodeo and drink a bunch of beer with a buddy I haven't seen in a while, that was fun

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Yeah, Warsaw is really developed now so it's no longer a post-Soviet shithole. The women are great too, and drinking is good too if you like beer or vodka. One thing I like that we don't really have a culture of in the US is "zakąski", which is food meant to be eaten while drinking. It's like tapas in Spain or aperitivos in Italy. https://culture.pl/en/article/zakaski-culture-in-poland-what-to-eat-wit…

There's actually some not bad Czech and German food in TX since a lot of immigrants went there and opened meat markets which started bbq, but not many pierogi there I'm told.

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