This weekend will be one year without a week off for me.

At home parent for special needs kid. 7 years and counting.

Been two whole weeks without a vacation for me. Sucks.

can't have a vacation if you've never worked a day in your life

20 months

I plan to break the streak in October 2013

Every day is a vacation when you're retired.

could be worse Wrote:
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> At home parent for special needs kid. 7 years and
> counting.

I hear ya. Other than visiting senile dying parent...I can't even remember. At least 15 years. Probably much longer. You lose track after a while.

ABout 3-4 years for me. I do get away sometimes briefly for the weekends, but I wouldn't count that as vacation, as I was on-call and still had to work.

I last took a week off in June to vacation with my kids. Was hoping to get in a beach vacation before school but that didn't happen. Totally sucks. Now, I'm not looking at any significant time off until the holidays when I drop two weeks to be at home with kids during their winter break. It's going to be a brutal few months.

Everyone who has not been on vacation in a year or more -- please look in the mirror. YOU are the reason you have not taken a vacation. Please do schedule one and take one.

Life is too short. Your job will still be there. You will experience something new. You will create family memories. You will recharge your batteries.

There is no one who dies and at the funeral speakers say - "he/she should have worked harder and put in more hours on the job." Many times the exact opposite is true -- they spent too many years as a slave to the job and their family and relationships and personal growth suffered from it.

At the end of their lives, so many of the wealthy turn to charitable works and efforts to help the less fortunate. This is because they realize that greedy Republicanism and me-me-me accummulation and hoarding is a recipe for miserable failure in life.

gerrymanderer = left high school been living in moms basement for fifteen years. How does he take a vacation.

I'm 44 and I haven't had a vacation in 26 years since I lived at home with my parents. I enjoy my work. It funds my interest in restoring old cars and that's how I prefer to spend my free time and money.

Not trying to be mean, or maaking fun of your situation, but your parent has been senile and dying or 15 years? How can you be dying for 15 years?

> I hear ya. Other than visiting senile dying
> parent...I can't even remember. At least 15 years.
> Probably much longer. You lose track after a
> while.

Some people have to work to live while some live to work. I vaction to live. This world has become overpopulated and I do my best not to contribute to the destruction of the planet we call home.
Alcohol and grass are renewable resources.

amIdying? Wrote:
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> Not trying to be mean, or maaking fun of your
> situation, but your parent has been senile and
> dying or 15 years? How can you be dying for 15
> years?
>
> > I hear ya. Other than visiting senile dying
> > parent...I can't even remember. At least 15
> years.
> > Probably much longer. You lose track after a
> > while.

That's a long time but not that unusual. Younger folks who haven't yet hit the age where you have to start dealing with aging parents have lots of fun to look forward to.

parents caught in the middle right now are just screwed. kids who can't find jobs and never move out, and aging parents who live forever but need fulltime care.

Curmudgeon Wrote:
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> parents caught in the middle right now are just
> screwed. kids who can't find jobs and never move
> out, and aging parents who live forever but need
> fulltime care.

I'm not sure how that's going to work either. To date, Medicaid has been what pays after all of the person's assets are exhausted (which happens very quickly in the case of most people). It can't handle all of the old folks that we're going to have hitting that point at the same time soon. Especially with people tending to hang on longer now.

Plenty of staycations, getting shit squared away,and drinking all day, and just being on my time not being rushed.
I should go somewhere but I don't want to spend a few grand going to the beach, when it's just me.

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I'm not sure how that's going to work either.

me either. it ain't a pretty picture.

amIdying? Wrote:
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> Not trying to be mean, or maaking fun of your
> situation, but your parent has been senile and
> dying or 15 years? How can you be dying for 15
> years?
>
> > I hear ya. Other than visiting senile dying
> > parent...I can't even remember. At least 15
> years.
> > Probably much longer. You lose track after a
> > while.

Actually, I was primarily referring to taking care of a special needs child, in sympathy with another poster. Beyond the time commitment, it's a huge financial drain. Combine that with a parent who spent five years in a nursing home before succumbing. I feel guilty about this, but it was far enough away that I couldn't visit often. But that's where my vacation time went.

definitely NOT fairfax county courts

those asses take vacations continually. if you are trying to get them to court it's quite annoying the delays it creates.

and they know how to use it too. they use their "computer scheduling" just so things are due when they are gone and delayed


unionized gov employees has gone way too far

btw i worked private sector i got 1 day off / week and NO SICK DAYS and NO DAYS OFF for quite a while. they worked me 12-16 / day (else i'm fired) and was paid less than min wage for doing skilled labor

so what you say, what you say, fairfax gov

the more you say the less i believe

yea i was hoping to get to the beach as well ... to say the least

svennestle Wrote:
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> btw i worked private sector i got 1 day off / week
> and NO SICK DAYS and NO DAYS OFF for quite a
> while. they worked me 12-16 / day (else i'm
> fired) and was paid less than min wage for doing
> skilled labor
>
> so what you say, what you say, fairfax gov
>
> the more you say the less i believe
>
> yea i was hoping to get to the beach as well ...
> to say the least


And Whitey Is on the Moon..

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I feel guilty about this, but it was far enough away that I couldn't visit often. But that's where my vacation time went.

don't feel guilty. that's an impossible situation. i'm sure you did what you could.

No problemo!!! We have grandmama, grandpapa, great-grandmama, great grandpapa, pappy and mammi, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, and couple friends and familia from Cuernavaca, plus 15 bambinos, all happy in family!!! Some work, some take care bambinos. All time, everybody happy, all sharing! Gringos must learn how to survive like king,queen in America!! And we take care bambinos from neighbor too! No Mucho deniera, switch houses, with friends and coworkers, give mucho help everybody win!!!

^ what the fuck does that have to do with vacation?

I'm 52 and have taken less than half a dozen vacations in my life, never for more than 5 days.

pXncw Wrote:
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> I'm 52 and have taken less than half a dozen
> vacations in my life, never for more than 5 days.


do you fuck with the lights off in missionary position only also?