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I work at a university and get 12 stat days + 15 holidays = 27 days per year. That sounds like a lot more on paper than it is in real life =)
A Swedish perspective: By law you are granted 25 days vacation per year, assuming you have worked enough to "earn them", generally you get 12.5-13.x% extra salary per day worked that goes towards your vacation. The law also says that you have a right to 4 weeks uninterrupted vacation during the June, July and August. At least two months before the (requested) vacation you must get a definitive decision. The employers…
That 4 week of uninterrupted vacation is mandatory or a person can take that days in different periods?
Another interesting fact about Swedish law is that you are free to leave your job for further education if you want. Max 6 months and when you come back, the employers is required by law that you recieve the same sort of job tasks and the same amount of pay of course.
The employer has the right to decide when you may leave for max 6 months ahead in the future.
Last vacations I'd had I've taken small periods like 5-days since almost every time I've been joining a new company. I usually travel or work on side projects / learn something new.
This year, I will take a longer period I think 4 weeks in a row would suite me just perfectly.
French 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.
#1 3 years in Australia = Time to open a new chapter: I want to be a product manager and I wasn't on the rails,
#2 Stress due to unhealthy working hours,
#3 Air conditioning in buses and offices,
#4 No snowboard or windsurf in Sydney (If you enjoy surf you'll be just fine),
#5 Stress due to the immigrant visa,
#6 Not enough holidays,
#7 Sydney drivers. I think Melbourne has the stereotypical friendly Australian lifestyle and Sydney is more a capital/immigrant city. But Sydney has the beaches. And Melbourne the windsurfers. #hardtochoose
#8 Cost of living (With twice my French salary, I barely saved the same amount per year)
To make it fair, I'll mix it with the upsides:
# Hypercool working culture, awesome knowledgeable colleagues,
# The Sydney IT scene is alive, knowledgeable and dynamic,
# Nice parties at work (beer on tap in the office),
# Sun all-year-round, beach culture, nice dates (ey, that's important),
# Multicultural environment,
# Agile culture, a crazy lot to learn at the workplace...
# The border police saying "I like your Angry Nerds t-shirt. Welcome to Australia."
So here's my advice: Like everyone, have your target workplace pay for your move to Australia and host you for the first month. Apply for Permanent Residency as soon as you touch base (or before if you can). Once you have PR, get a good salary and/or change company. Be excellent at work. Go there if you're not addicted to mountaineering. And remember immigrating isn't easy: During the first months you feel lonely and disoriented (as in, people have values you're not used to, and the ones you do have mean nothing to them), it may take up to 2 years to get used to the new culture. After 2 years, you learn what you're going to take away from that culture and it enriches you. Best of luck adaml!
I'm from India, working at a travel startup Mygola. I usually take 3 vacations(2x15 Days, 1x7 days), they are divided into some travel, visiting family/friends, some spiritual activity, etc. Mygola also has one cool perk called workation when entire team travel while also keep working(work+vacation).
I used to take one long trip every year or so, with 6-9 months on the road, climbing, surfing, and otherwise just wandering about until it started to get old or I missed using my brain and needed to run home and land another contract. That lasted for about 10 years, but I've slowed down a bit now. These days I seldom take more than six weeks truly "off", with all tools down and no hours billed. Instead I tend to move…
Do you carry your climbing gear or do you buy/sell at every location? I just started climbing a year ago, but all the stuff weighs a lot. Topic: I have something like a lifestyle SaaS business, but I'm mainly at home and take a week or two off whenever I want (and other people have time). For example, last week, I went snowboarding in France for a week. In 2013, I spent about 8 weeks in total in other places (US, Fra…
On extended trips, when I hit Europe (and thus needed to camp at climbing areas), I'd spin the $12/day rental car past a Decathlon and pick up a $20 sleeping bag, $40 tent, and $1.99 giant inflatable pool toy mattress to serve as the envy of the entire campground. Everybody else has stoves and cookware, so that part's sorted. And when it comes time to fly home, some lucky dirtbag gets a bunch of free gear.
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Can you quickly enumerate the other 5+ reasons you left Australia? I'm very curious about different perspectives on these things.
Most of them depend on the relationships you create with your key stakeholders: #1 3 years in Australia = Time to open a new chapter: I want to be a product manager and I wasn't on the rails, #2 Stress due to unhealthy working hours, #3 Air conditioning in buses and offices, #4 No snowboard or windsurf in Sydney (If you enjoy surf you'll be just fine), #5 Stress due to the immigrant visa, #6 Not enough holidays, #7 S…
# Sun all-year-round, beach culture, nice dates. This is really really important. Unfortunately the European countries that can offer Sun almost-all-year-round and beach culture have a big economic crisis.
I used to take one long trip every year or so, with 6-9 months on the road, climbing, surfing, and otherwise just wandering about until it started to get old or I missed using my brain and needed to run home and land another contract. That lasted for about 10 years, but I've slowed down a bit now. These days I seldom take more than six weeks truly "off", with all tools down and no hours billed. Instead I tend to move…
That's really great, so in the past you only work during 3-6 months?
Keep in mind, that your taxable income for the year will likely be less than $20k, so most of your paycheck while you're living cheaply will go straight towards travel expenses for the next lap.
Personally, I liked 3 month contracts. I usually ended up saving a lot more than I could possibly spend on the road.
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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…
People working hourly jobs don't get much guatanteed vacation and we have lots of them. Just about any full-time professional setting will have much more. Somewhere around 20 days when you factor in vacation and holidays and most give more days after a few years of service. The end result is that the older working population has many more days it just isn't mandated by the government. In regards to wealthy nation vac…