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[leppie]

Heck, I only get 15. I would kill for 20.

[salvadors → leppie]

Move 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 → salvadors]

Conversations like these make me realise how lucky us teachers are with our 13 weeks of paid vacation time.

[jrnkntl → skyhook_mockups]

That's why they always say there are two reasons to become a teacher: July and August.

[namdnay → skyhook_mockups]

The 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.

[HaloZero → skyhook_mockups]

Plus you have days off from school that aren't national federal holidays, Cesar Chavez Day if I remember was one.

[timdiggerm → HaloZero]

Which 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 → timdiggerm]

Ha! 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.

[skyhook_mockups → HaloZero]

Well I'm from Australia, so I think there are at least another 5-10 public holidays that i'm not counting.

[metafunctor → salvadors]

In 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.

[smackfu → salvadors]

Of course, everyone takes them during the same time, and goes to the same place.