I try to take a week or two off here and there and every time I leave the freaking company falls apart
It’s nice to be needed but geesh ! Not THAT much !
I had that at the hotel. But when you’re the only man on the property who fixes everything, all you can do is wonder “How many disasters will I walk into today?” I cynically thought of it as “job security”. At least it paid well...and all the waitresses and housekeepers a man could chase!
If it makes you feel any better, I haven’t had a vacation since I don’t know when. It has to be four years at least.
The amount it costs to live has gone up so much, and I don’t live extravagantly. My kids aren’t that spoiled (well some). I do have a day off here and there, and do things around here.
In the army, I had 25 days of annual leave. That actually equates to a lot because you tack a day onto a 3 day weekend or so, or around christmas you tack 3 days onto the ones they gave us anyways, and you’d wind up with 2 weeks off. In some cases it was hard to burn up the leave days. One used to be able to bank them and then retire early, but they took that away.