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How much vacation do you get?

paulrbeers said:
This for me as well. I own my own business and am a contractor for a fortune 500 company. Neither of my "jobs" give me any vacation/personal/sick days. If I take time off, I don't get paid. It's amazing how much motivation that gives you for getting your butt out of bed and into the office!
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Same boat. I just went that route this year and so far it's been one of the best moves I've made so far. You can take vacation and time off when you want but it's at your cost so you need make bank when you can. I'm in creative services so it's feast or famine usually. I usually tell my clients "well I'll be on vacation from xxx to xxx" and usually get dumped on with work before that so that can be both good and bad. Getting a routine has been the best way for me... get up, get my coffee going, then get to work. It's so easy to sleep in or hit the snooze.

In my previous 9-5s, I hardly took any vacation so I ended up having to use it before the end of the year or get it paid out which isn't fun at all. When I did take vacation, it always seemed to be a burden to the employer. Even taking a day seemed to a be a ton of fires to put out when I got back. To the OP, it sounds like they don't delegate very much and you're the go-to guy for a lot of things. I've been in that spot a lot and it's not fun.
 
AustinIllini said:
See I would use all of it. You almost have to. The thing about vacation is they give you it and they call it "paid", but it's not actually paid. They could give you no vacation and pay you more, but they don't. They instead give you vacation and pay you less.

Moral of the story: There's no such thing as "paid vacation". Take all of your vacation.
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The places I've worked paid me for unused vacation when I left, though that's changing. However, I think that it's healthier to take the time I get (currently about 30 days a year, including holidays).
 
I get 10 holidays + my birthday off. I can use my birthday leave at any point in the pay period.

I accrue 4 hours of annual leave each pay period (biweekly), so that works out to a little over 10 days each year. That's roughly two and a half weeks off per year since I work four 10-hour days a week.

We max out at 7.5 hours accrued each pay period, which is a about 5 weeks per year.

It's a pretty good deal. The only problem is that we have to maintain a balance of at least 40 hours of annual leave in case of emergencies.

It wasn't specifically asked for, but sick leave accrues at the same rate as described above.
 
I have 46 days credits for vacation leaves, 6 days from charged time overs, and another 15 days internally arranged VLs. These doesn't include standard holidays. The problem is I can't use them anytime because of my work. :(
 
puma1552 said:
Can't roll any vacation either, use it or lose it, and lots of people have lost it thinking they'd be able to take it at the end of the year but having too many deadlines, so even that's a gamble.
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Too bad you don't live in California as this is illegal in our state. If an employer won't allow for you to roll over vacation then they MUST pay you out at the end of the year.
 
i dont get any vacations! i wish i could take my parents on a vacation but just dont have time! and my grandparents but they dont want to live the city
 
I get 4 weeks vacation per year, plus 24 hours of personal time and lots of sick time. I think I have about 800 hours of sick time built up.
 
Recently started a new job. I believe they start us off at 10 days with accumulation each year (I need to double check on that...). There are also a good bit of holidays and company shut-downs in between.

On a side note, this is also an engineering job...everyone there tells me to be ready for ludicrous overtime after my training period.
 
I get 26 days annual leave plus the 8 UK bank holidays - so 34 days (6.8 weeks) total.

There's no real limit on sick leave, depends on circumstances, but I would need a doctor's note if I were to take more than three consecutive sick days.

My wife gets 31 days + 8 bank holidays, lucky thing! :eek:
 
18 days plus federal holidays paid time off.
Every five years you get an extra week on top of that.
Sick time is unlimited, but in reason, of course. Most work from home when sick, since it's about the same.
 
Before I quit my job I had 15 paid days off as well as 4 paid sick days, so 19 days total. If I would have stayed with them for another 2 months I would have gotten 20 paid days off and 5 paid sick days. I just got tired of working in that field of work and decided to take a few years off and go back to school for a while.
 
Go in to the oil & gas industry where you work offshore. I work on a seismic vessel collecting data for the oil companies, for 5 weeks at a time. No uniform, suits or anything like that, I rock up to work in flip flops, shorts and a t-shirt. I work for 12 hours at a time, but it's more like you work when the work comes in, so those 12 hours aren't exactly choc-full of back-breaking work.

Salary is totally tax-free. But the best bit? I work for 5 weeks then get 5 weeks leave. So over the course of a year I get 6 months off. Great salary, great hours, no suit-and-tie. I couldn't be happier :)

Alex
 
Im self employed. I take vacation/holiday when i want to. Usually a month at a time. I could not work like some of you guys do with the pressures of job comes first mentality some companies have. Ill take a day off when I feel I need one, not when I'm told I can.
 
How much vacation do you get?

In Portugal, legally, you get 22 days but that doesn't mean you get them all at the same time... For example I already had 1 week of vacations on June and now I have another one at end of September... I choose those weeks but not everyone gets to choose it... My GF works at retail and they don't give their employees August because that's when they have more works... So I asked for September so I could have vacations at the same time my GF has!

The rest of the days I can save up if I'm feeling sick or if I have to go to the doctor or anything else
 
kingalexthe1st said:
Go in to the oil & gas industry where you work offshore. I work on a seismic vessel collecting data for the oil companies, for 5 weeks at a time. No uniform, suits or anything like that, I rock up to work in flip flops, shorts and a t-shirt. I work for 12 hours at a time, but it's more like you work when the work comes in, so those 12 hours aren't exactly choc-full of back-breaking work.

Salary is totally tax-free. But the best bit? I work for 5 weeks then get 5 weeks leave. So over the course of a year I get 6 months off. Great salary, great hours, no suit-and-tie. I couldn't be happier :)

Alex
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I'm in the oil and gas industry, but onshore as an engineer, so funny you mention that...sounds like you have a good gig.

This thread just continues to make me feel worse, lol.
 
Ah man, I didn't mean to brag. Well, maybe just a little :eek: I was thinking more of 'you should join the industry, these are the benefits'. My company is recruiting atm and we take plenty of people from all over the world. Depending on what your engineering background is, you could be used. Message me if you're at all interested.

Alex
 
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