I get 6 weeks of paid vacation.
I do take time some time off for hunting, and fishing, butour second home allows for my wife and kids to spend the summer months and spring weekends at the lakeand I'll commute back and forth to work from there, when I'm in the Province so I don't really need to take all the time alotted to me.
I like to be ahead, when it comes to my work, that way the worst I'll beis current if an emergancy should arise.
I just take a buy out on my vacation pay, at the end of the year....
I have always put work ,ahead of my family vacation, andplaytime.
Never woulda got into a monogomous relationship, got married, and had a familly,
if I didn'tknow for a fact this was what I wanted, and I knew it would work.
I invested too much of my life between school and apprenticeships to just toss away it away.
Hours and hours of time spent in classrooms, homework and studying is something I hated...
But it also pissed me off so much, I took on the attitide if I set goals, and acheived my goals, my work got done neatly,and I knew it was right, it would get done sooner....Than if I faught it....
When ya think about it, by the timeone graduates from secondary, and post secondary schools, just about (or more often than not) over a quarter (closer to 1/3) of ones life has past.
Better make the most of the hours ya spent in those classrooms, , you can pretty guarantee the ones who didn't, wish they had.
If one plans on living till80 or 85 ,one has only got2/3's ofhis lifeleft before your rotting in the ground or your dust is blowing in the wind.
So ya work is something I take very very seriously, more seriosly than hunting or fishing cause without an income, the first thing to go would be my retirement savings.
My ultimate goal is to fully retire at 50, I've seen too many people drop like flies between 55 and 65..
Some people don't get a chance to retire at all,or have retired and dropped dead 6 months to a year after.
Bottem line, my goal is to work hard now so I can play hard later, and at 50, I'm still young enoughso I can really really take full advantage of all my recreational hobbies.
And if I am rotting in the ground, at 55 well I had 5 years of pure enjoyment, and I like to think if I pass before then,not only will my kidsbe rich,but my great grandkids, won't have to worry about retirement savings either....
So I'm all good and content knowing I can hunt more but opt not too.