Scheduling vacation time...
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How do you guys do it? ...I have such a hard time pulling myself away from work! Schedule vacations between projects or just do it when the vacation time is convenient for your personal life?
As a consultant working for myself - what holidays. 6 years and no more than a snatched few days here an there. As a contractor - at the end of every contract, a couple of weeks. Now (9 years in the same contract) I tell them when I am going, book the tickets and when they want to cancel the let them know there is a 10k cost in changing all my arrangements. 1 vacation changed 6 years ago and yes they paid the 10k (they thought I was joking).
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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How do you guys do it? ...I have such a hard time pulling myself away from work! Schedule vacations between projects or just do it when the vacation time is convenient for your personal life?
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How do you guys do it? ...I have such a hard time pulling myself away from work! Schedule vacations between projects or just do it when the vacation time is convenient for your personal life?
I book about a year in advance. I take time of work to match when the holiday was booked, regardless of what is happening at the time. No way am I going to blow a grand or two and massively disappoint my family for the company's sake.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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How do you guys do it? ...I have such a hard time pulling myself away from work! Schedule vacations between projects or just do it when the vacation time is convenient for your personal life?
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How do you guys do it? ...I have such a hard time pulling myself away from work! Schedule vacations between projects or just do it when the vacation time is convenient for your personal life?
These years i'm stuck to August, due to the kindergarten closure time, and usually i book three or four months earlier. When i was younger and (most of all) fool, once i had to interrupt my winter holidays to go back to work :( but at that time the company had only me and my boss and later on i had to accept to connect from remote in very exceptional cases for a couple of hours during my vacations but it's some years that it doesn't happen :) . Once my boss asked me if i could cancel my planned travel, but luckily that was my most expensive vacation (sort of honeymoon) and he decided not to pay the fees for me to remain :-D Is this common in very small companies (to be very flexible during planned vacation time)?
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How do you guys do it? ...I have such a hard time pulling myself away from work! Schedule vacations between projects or just do it when the vacation time is convenient for your personal life?
I generally schedule mine far enough in the future (a few months) that I don't have tasking planned yet. Makes it much easier that way since I'd already decided to go somewhere before anyone could plonk a deadline in place.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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As a consultant working for myself - what holidays. 6 years and no more than a snatched few days here an there. As a contractor - at the end of every contract, a couple of weeks. Now (9 years in the same contract) I tell them when I am going, book the tickets and when they want to cancel the let them know there is a 10k cost in changing all my arrangements. 1 vacation changed 6 years ago and yes they paid the 10k (they thought I was joking).
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Mycroft Holmes wrote:
1 vacation changed 6 years ago and yes they paid the 10k (they thought I was joking).
:laugh: :thumbsup:
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I book about a year in advance. I take time of work to match when the holiday was booked, regardless of what is happening at the time. No way am I going to blow a grand or two and massively disappoint my family for the company's sake.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
Think because I'm still a single guy I tend to put work ahead of most things... but that's probably why I'm still a single guy. ;)
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Think of it this way: if I died this weekend would the company collapse? That should give you a better perspective on your indispensibility.
Use the best guess
True... but I always think everyone is more dispensable then they like to think... although maybe that should be more of an excuse for me to take my vacations.
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These years i'm stuck to August, due to the kindergarten closure time, and usually i book three or four months earlier. When i was younger and (most of all) fool, once i had to interrupt my winter holidays to go back to work :( but at that time the company had only me and my boss and later on i had to accept to connect from remote in very exceptional cases for a couple of hours during my vacations but it's some years that it doesn't happen :) . Once my boss asked me if i could cancel my planned travel, but luckily that was my most expensive vacation (sort of honeymoon) and he decided not to pay the fees for me to remain :-D Is this common in very small companies (to be very flexible during planned vacation time)?
Well I work for a very small company... and I love it... but it does put quite a bit of burden on your shoulders to get things accomplished. I don't really have to ask for vacation, just have to let them know, but with my tasks piled a mile high, it's hard to just go.
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I generally schedule mine far enough in the future (a few months) that I don't have tasking planned yet. Makes it much easier that way since I'd already decided to go somewhere before anyone could plonk a deadline in place.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
I really should start doing this, think what keeps me from doing it now is how unreliable travel buddies tend to be (not married).