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[quote=Anonymous]I don't mean expensive travel vacations, like cruises or luxury beach houses or fancy trips abroad... but even like camping trips, road trips to visit family, or even staycations at home. Anything that's a week or more when you're not working and not primarily a federal holiday.

I'm realizing that I may be very privileged here, but for the past 10 years of my adult gainful employment professional life, no matter how entry-level or low-paying the job, I always had PTO, and I always used it. I'd take a week or so to visit some friends or hang out with family or go camping. I didn't feel irresponsible, financially or professionally, in doing so. And before that, I was in Europe, and had much longer vacations where I got to do pretty much whatever (on a shoestring budget nonetheless). My parents were in academia so that also skewed my perceptions a bit.

Yet here I'm realizing that most of the people in my life rarely go on actual vacations. They have PTO that gets swallowed up by being sick, taking care of sick kids, taking care of errands, or maybe the odd mental health day here and there. But going on a vacation, leaving town or staycation for a week or more, is not a regular annual thing. Often times they feel like they'll miss out on too much at work or fall behind if they do. This to me is very depressing. Does nobody in this country ever really fully disconnect from their jobs?

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