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.
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 at least a week or two off every year to go backpacking in the mountains with a few long weekends thrown in here and there. I like my job quite a lot but I'm not going to let it control my life. Any firm that knocks you for taking time off isn't a firm worth working for in my opinion.
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! :-/
I haven't had a truly disconnected day since Q4 2018.
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.
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.
Great question. I've taken "physical" time off, meaning I've stepped way for a day or so and not mechanically done any work but I can't remember the last day I took where my mind was off as it pertains to work, finances, etc. As I've gotten older, I've found the latter to be more valuable.
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
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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