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Heck, I only get 15. I would kill for 20.
by leppie 14y ago
Heck, I only get 15. I would kill for 20.
- salvadors 14y agoMove to Europe. Most countries guarantee at least 25–30 days (the UK is actually one of the lowest.) In Finland you get 40.
- skyhook_mockups 14y agoConversations like these make me realise how lucky us teachers are with our 13 weeks of paid vacation time.
- HaloZero 14y agoPlus you have days off from school that aren't national federal holidays, Cesar Chavez Day if I remember was one.
- skyhook_mockups 14y agoWell I'm from Australia, so I think there are at least another 5-10 public holidays that i'm not counting.
- timdiggerm 14y agoWhich days these are depends entirely on the state and school district, at least in the US. Districts with a low or no Jewish population aren't likely to take Rosh Hashanah off, etc.
- eli_gottlieb 14y agoHa! Districts outside of New York and LA mostly don't grant Rosh ha'Shanah off even if they do have a substantial Jewish population. Employers do similar: Jewish holidays come out of your vacation time because they're not "company holidays" like Christmas. Just noting, but Massachusetts never really stopped being Puritan. Oy gevalt.
- namdnay 14y agoThe problem with teaching is that your holidays are the same time as all the families, so you're stuck with the most expensive and crowded periods.
- jrnkntl 14y agoThat's why they always say there are two reasons to become a teacher: July and August.
- smackfu 14y agoOf course, everyone takes them during the same time, and goes to the same place.
- metafunctor 14y agoIn reality, the Finnish average is more like 27-32 days. After your second year of work at a company, you get 5 weeks vacation per year. The official number for this is 30 days, but that's counting Saturdays. Nobody works 6 days per week, so in reality this is 25 days. On top of those 25 days, there are public holidays. On average 7 of them fall on weekdays per year. This gives us a grand total of 32 days per year on average.