Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It goes against every Protestant-work-ethic bone in my body to take off time between jobs. Wasted time? Wasted money?

Cheapskate

Not the PP. But, thanks for the complement.
My wife says I need a bumper sticker: "Don't tailgate, I stop to pick up pennies"

I‘m the OP here, and I’m not cheap. But I do love Benjamin Franklin thriftiness and Rockefeller work values. Maybe I’m the dying breed, but I find value in hard work for its own sake, and I cannot imagine taking a week off between jobs to do nothing.

You never took time off to raise kids?

Anonymous wrote:I am pondering this right now. I am expecting an offer this week. The new job doesn’t need me until may. But the current job is insanely busy and I don’t know that I can get someone trained in the next 2 weeks. I may actually stick with current until the new job starts. But damn would I love a couple weeks to myself!

Training your replacement is not your responsibility. They will cope!

I took a week -- and my advice (that my mentor passed along to me) is to start a new job on a Wednesday. That gives you a short week and you get the weekend to decompress.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It goes against every Protestant-work-ethic bone in my body to take off time between jobs. Wasted time? Wasted money?

Cheapskate

Not the PP. But, thanks for the complement.
My wife says I need a bumper sticker: "Don't tailgate, I stop to pick up pennies"

I‘m the OP here, and I’m not cheap. But I do love Benjamin Franklin thriftiness and Rockefeller work values. Maybe I’m the dying breed, but I find value in hard work for its own sake, and I cannot imagine taking a week off between jobs to do nothing.

from above - I'm giving 6+ weeks notice because the new job doesn't need me until May. I think that is PLENTY of notice

I just made the decision to NOT take time between my current job and my next job (I'm turning in my resignation tonight)

I may go out of town in a couple weeks and "work" from my parents beach condo when they take my child there for a couple days for spring break. I mean, I have a computer and internet connection there - I can work from the patio overlooking the Bay.

there is a difference between cheap and thrifty/money conscious

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It goes against every Protestant-work-ethic bone in my body to take off time between jobs. Wasted time? Wasted money?

Cheapskate

Not the PP. But, thanks for the complement.
My wife says I need a bumper sticker: "Don't tailgate, I stop to pick up pennies"

Gross
My dh says the eleventh commandment is thou shall not be cheap. He has instilled this into our kids. There is no worse trait.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It goes against every Protestant-work-ethic bone in my body to take off time between jobs. Wasted time? Wasted money?

Cheapskate

Not the PP. But, thanks for the complement.
My wife says I need a bumper sticker: "Don't tailgate, I stop to pick up pennies"

Anonymous wrote:It goes against every Protestant-work-ethic bone in my body to take off time between jobs. Wasted time? Wasted money?

Cheapskate

It goes against every Protestant-work-ethic bone in my body to take off time between jobs. Wasted time? Wasted money?

I have deliberately not worked for a period of time, and the fact of the matter is that I didn't get much done, and was depressed. Also it is a lot more stressful being on COBRA or an individual policy than regular health insurance. It ended up feeling like wasted time.

My last big job switch, I took a three and a half week vacation (my only vacation in two years with a company that had "unlimited leave") overseas with no cellphone or laptop, and *then* I came back and gave my two weeks notice.

Switching agencies a few years ago, I took off my last friday at old agency to have surgery, and started the following monday at the new agency. it worked out well.

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I took six weeks the last time I switched jobs. Was able to use my accrued leave and stay on payroll and healthcare for the entire time - Fed job of course. It was glorious.

another example of how American's decisions are dictated by health insurance, or lack of.
Just like the retirement threads.

Anonymous wrote:Some people LOVE what they do for a living.

Some people LOVE being parents yet take a vacation without kids. Guess they don't love their kids.
You can love a job and take time off between jobs.