To my 9-5 wagies that travel internationally with limited amount of PTO days, how do you make the choice between:>3 separate week-long international trips (typically just stay in one city)>1 two-week trip and 1 week-long trip>1 three-week international tripAssuming you have the standard 3 weeks PTO like most corporate amerimutts. Also, has lying ever helped you get more leave time?
>>2902230You should definitely just do a 3 week pecker trip in your dick touch district of choice
>>2902230>>1 three-week international tripthey're not gonna let you do that
>>2902230Right now I basically plan 1 ten-day vacation in summer, 1 ten-day for new years, and a few shorter ones scattered throughout for traveling USA/canada.I've been mostly traveling Europe though, and I really want to go to Asia, but the added flight time basically requires 2 weeks minimum, and I just don't want to wait that long for a vacation. Rather have more throughout the year and see more placesAlso, planning trips around public holidays helps a lot to get that extra day for free
>>29022303 weeks leave sounds pretty fucking grim.I get 5 which I tend to take as 2 2wk holidays and a few extra days around public holidays.This year I'm doing one 5wk trip because of some family stuff.
>>2902230>how do you make the choice between:>standard 3 weeks PTO like most corporate amerimuttseasyyou don'tswitch to a company that offers ~25+ guaranteed PTOor move countrieslearn German or Spanish and move to Germany / Austria / Spain, where you can easily find a job with 30 days PTOUSA is only better for top earners, everyone else makes the same in big EU citiesIf you must decide nowdo 2 weeks once and 3 extended weekend trips
>>2902230I get 4 weeks, but work in sales so I very very rarely take more than a 10 week trip. I just do one every quarter. One thing that stretches my trips a lot is flying out thursday Afternoon (typically to europe) after work and working remotely Friday (I dont do shit but send a few emails and submit a deal I landed earlier and held) Yes id love a standard wagey job that lets me do 3 weeks but I would rather make sales money and retire early. INB4 europoors 'muh 5 weeks leave' ok but ill retire at 35 and make 4x what you do with half the tax burden to boot.
>>290302710 day 1 week pto trip*
>>2903028>>2902254I need "management approval" to take four weeks off in a bundle. No one else at my company takes long trips like that. If I'm flying to Taiwan or Korea, there's no way in hell I'm going for less than a few weeks because the flights are such a pain in the ass. I don't get these people that go to Japan only for a week
Most American companies don't give more than two weeks off at a time
>>2903067that's super rough..
>>2902230>Have each trip cover at least one holiday if not two This stretches it to 4 weeks>Have flex hours so you can work a 4/10 and can arrive a day early and leave a day lateThis stretches each week to 11 days (including travel).To answer your question, I generally do >1 international 2-week trip (1 destination + day trips or 2 destinations max)>1 domestic 1-week trip (almost always West Coast since I will just use long weekends for easy coast)This generally leaves me with left over PTO that I can use for longer international trips (3-4 weeks, generally reserved for Asia/Africa) or additional domestic trips here and there. Also the standard PTO is actually 10 days if you can believe it. I currently have 16 which I consider the bare minimum to be workable. I would switch to a job with more PTO if I could, but they're basically impossible to find, even public sector generally limits vacation to 15 or less until you have seniority, they just offer additional sick days. The main downside for me is that I have to be very intentional and have all of my trips for the next 2-3 years planned out, or I risk not having enough PTO to cover.
Used to do one for around 12 days, one for a week and a few long weekends. Thankfully now I have unlimited PTO.
>>2903107Do your coworkers or management get bothered by that? Usually unlimited PTO comes with a trade off that you’re not technically supposed to use it because you’ll be seen as a “slacker”
I'm stupid enough to actually do overtime at my job, and instead of getting overtime pay, I opt for bank hours. It's the only way I can take PTO longer than ten business days. I have a month-long trip coming up, which is the longest I'll ever be gone for.t. not even American. Canada really does copy the worst parts of American culture.
