AuroraBorealis
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To those of you who are employed with a set number of free days per year: How do you choose to spread those days throughout the year?
I don't know how it works in your countries. Where I live, time where you're sick doesn't affect your regular free days, those things are separated. You have a set number of free days per year (I'll probably have 30, have to check again to be sure), and, usually, you plan all of your holidays for the next year at some point in the previous year. Like, I'd have to plan all of my free days for 2025 at some point during 2024, and get them approved by my employer. I don't yet know how it works if you want to change something later.
Since this is all new to me, I am wondering how you all do that. Do you take your free days as 1 or 2 large chunks in one year? Or do you spread them, taking only a few days at a time, to have some shorter free time more frequently?
I am thinking how to do it when planning it for the first time. I know that I'll need a break, a long weekend of 3 or 4 days, in a certain regularity, to recharge from work or to catch up on some things, with no traveling, just staying at home. To visit my family, I'll need at least a week, but then all of that free time period is taken up for family time, with nothing left to just be home and recharge. Once a year, a 2 or even 3 week long free time would be nice, to really get some rest after using e.g. the first week for a family visit. At some point in the year, I'd also like to go on a holiday with my partner.
It'll be quite a challenge to juggle all those things: Free time to just recharge at home, time for family visits, time to spend somewhere with my partner, time to see my partner's family, time to visit a friend. And, for all those things, dividing the free days into shorter and longer chunks of free time, somewhat evenly distributed throughout the year.
So, again, how do you people organize that? What are your recharging needs, and how do you accommodate them? Just to get some ideas and inspiration.
I am aware that excessive people-pleasing will result in me being stressed out and not gaining much from my free time. So I am trying to also get some perspective and to find middle ground between visiting/pleasing everyone, and allowing myself time to just stay home and rest.
I'd be grateful if we could not make this thread into a discussion of how many free days one has, and how the different employment systems work, or whether someone is "better" or "worse off". If someone would like to discuss things like that, please use a separate thread. Thank you in advance.
I don't know how it works in your countries. Where I live, time where you're sick doesn't affect your regular free days, those things are separated. You have a set number of free days per year (I'll probably have 30, have to check again to be sure), and, usually, you plan all of your holidays for the next year at some point in the previous year. Like, I'd have to plan all of my free days for 2025 at some point during 2024, and get them approved by my employer. I don't yet know how it works if you want to change something later.
Since this is all new to me, I am wondering how you all do that. Do you take your free days as 1 or 2 large chunks in one year? Or do you spread them, taking only a few days at a time, to have some shorter free time more frequently?
I am thinking how to do it when planning it for the first time. I know that I'll need a break, a long weekend of 3 or 4 days, in a certain regularity, to recharge from work or to catch up on some things, with no traveling, just staying at home. To visit my family, I'll need at least a week, but then all of that free time period is taken up for family time, with nothing left to just be home and recharge. Once a year, a 2 or even 3 week long free time would be nice, to really get some rest after using e.g. the first week for a family visit. At some point in the year, I'd also like to go on a holiday with my partner.
It'll be quite a challenge to juggle all those things: Free time to just recharge at home, time for family visits, time to spend somewhere with my partner, time to see my partner's family, time to visit a friend. And, for all those things, dividing the free days into shorter and longer chunks of free time, somewhat evenly distributed throughout the year.
So, again, how do you people organize that? What are your recharging needs, and how do you accommodate them? Just to get some ideas and inspiration.
I am aware that excessive people-pleasing will result in me being stressed out and not gaining much from my free time. So I am trying to also get some perspective and to find middle ground between visiting/pleasing everyone, and allowing myself time to just stay home and rest.
I'd be grateful if we could not make this thread into a discussion of how many free days one has, and how the different employment systems work, or whether someone is "better" or "worse off". If someone would like to discuss things like that, please use a separate thread. Thank you in advance.