EU here. Last year (full-time employment): 12 days in total. 5-6 workdays/week, 9-10hrs/day.
Ask HN: How many vacations do you take a year?
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#32My answer is either zero, or one that is 365 days long... I travel and work continuously. In 2012, I was in 20 countries. In 2011, I was in 12. I enjoy my work, and don't really wish for time apart from it. My Brazilian girlfriend is trying to convince me to take longer (off-grid) vacations. We'll see how that goes.
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#33Serbian freelancer here
Last year I was to USA (10 days), Mallorca/Ibiza (14 days), Greece (4 days), a bit around the country for a few days, and during winter I tend to take every 3rd weekend or so to go to skiing. That sums up to around 30+ days/year.
This year, my plan is to mainly have active vacations, travelling & working, Thailand for a few months, and some mountain during winter for a few months.
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#34US here as well. My family takes a 4-6 week road trip each year (we go to points west to rock climb). I will typically work 5-8 day remotely during those trips (usually in a block at some point mid-trip), and unless I know something is brewing, I won't check my work email outside of those blocks (typically, this isn't hard, as we tend to camp in areas without great cellular coverage).
We will typically squeeze in a few four day weekend as well at other points in the year. If I've burned all my vacation time on our road trip, I'll just condense my work weeks.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the UK the legal minimum is 28 days. In theory you can take the days however you want. In practice though you usually have to negotiate when to take them with your boss. They have to allow you to take them all off at some point in the year though so they're usually pretty accommodating. I've always been surprised at how little people get in the US. Given that it's a wealthy nation it seems to lag considerably behi…
NB: Those 28 "include" bank holidays. It used to be a 20 day mandatory minimum, which was meant to be 20 days + bank holidays, but unscrupulous bosses were including bank holidays in the 20, so some people were only getting 12 days "real" holiday. (Days they could pick). So now it's a 28 day minimum, of which 8 are usually bank holidays and 20 free to pick.
In Austria it's 25 + bank holidays, and Austria has a large amount of bank holidays so some years it can be around 35 days free. I was pretty shocked when I first started working here how much time was given free. I'm going to have a hard time readjusting when/if I go back to Canada.
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#36French here. When employee in France, the law says 25 days/yr and you can add 11 RTT (please don't look that up in wikipedia). People don't tend to use them all. I would generally take 1-2 weeks for Christmas, and 2-weeks trips along the year to Europe or to the mountains/sea sports. In Australia, it's only 4 weeks off, plus you kind of have to take 2 weeks to visit your family back in Europe for Christmas, so in the…
Can you quickly enumerate the other 5+ reasons you left Australia? I'm very curious about different perspectives on these things.
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#37Usually take one large period (~14 days) to go abroad then use the rest to take small 3 day breaks to make the weekend longer or for stuff like christmas
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#38Brazilian here. We get, by law, 30 days every year. We get 1+1/3 normal pay on those days.
You can choose to "sell" 10 of those 30 days and work (getting paid your normal wage plus the vacation money), but you HAVE to take the other 20 days off.
If you choose to take the 30 days, you can split them in two periods. If you split them in 12 and 18 days, you can put your vacation days between weekends and effectively get 5 weeks off.
Of course, that's for regularly employed (meaning "working for someone else") people. If you have your own business or work as a freelancer, there's no regulation.
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#39I get 25 days in NL. I'm an expat, and have no kids.
I always take at least one 3+ week vacation, either to visit my home country (US) or to backpack. For me it's very important to completely disconnect from work for a while, it puts things in perspective, gives me more motivation, and brings me back ready to disrupt my previous work routine for the better.
The rest of the days I use 1-2 at a time to make a long weekend here and there (Nature or city trips).
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#40UK, Contractor. A 4 week long trip every 6months or so, though the last trip was 10 weeks. 3 to 4 weekend city breaks per year, most usually geared around a sporting event, festival or a friends Stag/Bachelor party. Next big trip is a month in Brazil for the World Cup in June. Aside from that Roland Garros in May and Oktoberfest in September.
Going to Brazil during the World Cup is really a great trip :). But be careful a lot of Brazilians want to boycott the World Cup
It should be great!. I'm not overly concerned, we had our own riots and disruptions prior to the Olympics in 2012 here but when it got to the point of the event common sense prevailed and everyone seemed to get behind it.
I was in Bangkok during the riots a few years ago and then Crete during the Greek ones, just being sensible helps you navigate around those sort of things.