My Advice to the Tech Community: Take Vacations.

I work full-time as a software engineer and in the last 4 years I have taken 4 months of vacation and visited 24 countries. We took some time off when our daughter was born, but she is 9 months old now, and we have a trip to Europe planned for next month. Travel is very important to us so we make sure that we take the time off from work, even if it is unpaid.