People with a lot of time off, what do you do?

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I am having a hard time trying to figure out what career to go for. One thing that is super important to me is having time off to travel, go on vacations, etc. But it’s depressing to me seeing how many people only get 2 weeks or less for vacations. People who get a lot of vacation time/time off at their work, what do you do?

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Public school!! The BEST job I ever had was working in the office of an elementary school!! 
Perks:
Worked 8-1 M-F and that was considered full time! 
School vacations and summers off! (Unpaid though) 
Super flexible!

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I have 6 weeks of PTO.  I've also been at company for 5 years and working in my industry (IT food manufacturing) for almost 20 years.  The amount of PTO you get is generally based on your years with a company and your level.  A new inexperienced hire is going to start out at about 2 weeks and you build from there.  Bigger companies and corporations generally have better PTO plans than smaller ones.

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I work for a global insurance company and get 27 days off a year and the option to buy 5 more - which we all do every year of course!

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I am a scientist in biomedical research. I started with 3 weeks vacation, a week of personal time, and unlimited sick time. We also have 20 weeks of parental leave paid at 100%. If you stay a while, you begin to accrue extra vacation days. I also have some flexibility in my schedule depending on what work I have on.

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30 days off a year with the military 🥳

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I went from being busy full time retail work, with very little time off, the time I did have was spent cleaning, cooking and playing with my kid.
I paid all the bills at the time.  Covid happened, my work went bankrupt, so we moved to my partners home town because he had some dreams to pursue.
Now instead of 30k per year that we've had to budget.. its ~50k per week 
He does 99% of the work with his employees... all I got to do is print off resumes, documents, book drug tests, flights etc... easy af tasks that take very little time and effort.
I'm considering- i don't feel like studying again .. maybe I'll have the employees build me a greenhouse and do that for the summer? Or take some classes when my kid enters kindergarten?  
I don't know, I've got too much time on my hand now that I don't have to worry about finances anymore.

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This can also depend on the country. Where I live, legally everyone working full time earns 2 vacation days per month so that’s 24 days minimum. I handle international relations for a public university though 😊

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My finance is a data engineer. He gets about 35 days of pto in addition to the two weeks he rolls over every year. Usually you will have to work your way up in order to get a lot of time off. When I worked for my. Previous employer (medium sized regional bank) we got three and a half weeks of pto but no option to accrue more regardless of years spent. My cowkers who were with the company for 20+ years had six weeks of pto

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Healthcare. I get 5 weeks vacation a year, plus 40 hours of “life balance” time to use for whatever I want. Plus I get 180 hours of sick leave a year. I’ve been with my company almost 5 years now, will only accrue more vacation weeks the longer I stay with the company.

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I work at a nonprofit. Good time off package, but not a lot of money for traveling.

People with a lot of time off, what do you do?

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