Posted on 08/14/2015 1:31:02 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Not me.. I’m at that point in life where time off is far more important. 28 months to retirement and I take vacations 2 - 3 times a year and a day off here and there. Still have the max carry over on the books as back up and when I leave work every day.. I leave work and bring nothing home.
I haven’t taken a vacation since 1994.
I have recently started taken a few hours off during the week to do some recreation and it is making a big difference in attitude.
But like so many these days, I will probably die at my desk. Retirement went away about 3/4 of the way through the Obama administration.
So, he changed my life.
Almost 27 years for me, excluding 4-day weekends.. Wore myself out traveling throughout Europe. No place I’d rather be than home..!
My “problem is with” the premise that a phone survey of 1,000 people accurately provides data about the entire population.
And now the Summer of Recovery, 7th Edition Attempt, is almost over.
1981 - 34 years and am not proud or lying. Almost every day off over three decades spent caring for sick/dying relatives. Have paid a high price physically, mentally, financially. Do *not* do this; take better care.
You would think that would skew the average.
One of those Americans is NOT Obama.
After years of not going away on vacation, now that our daughter is past toddler age and had/has swimming lessons, tomorrow we are going on a two week beach vacation at the Baltic Sea. I told my wife we didn’t even go yet and this is great - we need to get away more. She said we are booked for a long weekend in October, I forgot the place name but they have a really nice pool and large adventure/playground.
Thats how it now needs to be!
40% are on permanent vacation.
Pray America is waking
They don’t need to call more than a 1,000 people. Calling 10,000 or 100,000 would show much the same result. It’s a math thing. One thousand is a common sample amount.
I would suppose the purpose of a vacation is to go places you have never been, see sites you’d not seen, to get away from your family, things of that nature.
Our vacations consisted of visiting relatives, even our honeymoon was such a visit. Hubby’s class reunion was the month before our wedding, in Niagara Falls, NY, his brother lives around 30 miles away. So that was our Honeymoon.
They closest we came to a ‘real’ vacation was his 70 year old birthday class reunion in Las Vegas.
Other wise all we do is go see relatives. He has it figured to the relative how many nights we can stay, if we go to his brothers, we stop at my sister’s, his nephews, and then his brothers. 1 night in a motel room.
I don’t call that a vacation, I call it visiting relatives.
Since 2003 for me. Wayyy overdue but Obammy and his minions killed the ecomomy so everything is on unstable ground for me now.
A 4 day weekend is my vacation. I might take a real vacation about once every 4.
That was no vacation. Done that myself. Not fun.
Ha. Months? Months? 8 years for my family.
“A vacation was defined in the survey as a week off of work to a place at least 100 miles away from home.”
By this definition I haven’t had one...wait no that wasn’t a week.......no that was at home......hmmm.......well it’s been a long time to meet that definition.
As far as a vacation where you toake the family somewhere you’ve not been before, get hotels, eat out etc. and stay for a week or more, I’ve had exactly two. The last one was an easy 10 years ago.
I won an award at work and it came with money to take a weekend trip anywhere in the country. I managed to take 10 days with the family on that money by driving and camping.
We take a week off at Christmas to spend with family since I had to move away for work a few years ago.
I also lead a Trail Life USA troop and generally take a few days off to lead them at summer camp.
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