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24
USA

Student and freelance writer
Two weeks or more - I'm on a six-month trip right now. Currently in Tanzania, India on Wednesday, might do Sri Lanka and Nepal, too. Back to Mexico in December and then home at the beginning of January.

Thankfully, I earn a decent bit of money from writing. I can work from anywhere in the world and think I'll still have my best contract through at least next year.

Had an office job for a year and a half. I earned well but got fucking sick of the routine and monotony very quickly.

Once I graduate, I'm probably going to do the Peace Corps. If, for whatever reason, that plans falls through, I think I'll teach English in Latin America in conjunction with my writing work and an online master's program. After that, PhD and maybe work with the government or an NGO so I can live a comfy live overseas.

30
Europoor
Software Engineer

I do two vacations of 2 weeks yearly, and one week of visiting my home country.
(City trips during long weekends not included in the above.)

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>>1289211
>>55
>>US
>>Entertainment, I guess you'd call it. Work at festivals and fairs and events.
>>NA -- I book jobs as and when I can, if I want time off and can afford the time without work, I just don't book anything.
>>NA -- see above, plus a lot of the work I do involves travel. I try to hang a few days to a week onto the back end of a trip to a job someplace where I'd like to spend more time.

>Age
21
>Nationality
Canadian
>Job
Airline employee
>average length of vacation
3 weeks vacation time provided by company. Usually manage to make multiple trips last 2 weeks by dropping shifts.
>how do you manage time off to travel with your employer?
Easy to drop shifts and find time off desu.

>>1289256
df

>>1289389

This is the most half-assed post I've ever seen on /trv/.

>>1289389
Huh?

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>>1289211
>27
>EU
>Quit the job

Have worked hard to earn this freedom. In order to keep it though.. have to work even harder.

>>1289431
>tfw normies dont know about kyuss

Easily one of the most underrated bands ever.

>>1289211
>Age
30
>Nationality
Burger
>Job
Waffle House cook
>average length of vacation
One or two weeks
>how do you manage time off to travel with your employer?
Ask ahead of time (like months in advance) take over other people's shifts and ask them for a favor later--they get to drink on birthdays, at Halloween, New Years, and Thanksgiving so long as they let me fuck off for a bit in the summer.....if management says no, quit and work at IHOP when I return.

28
Canada
Transportation
1-3 weeks
I submit a vacation request form to my supervisor. Never had a request rejected yet.

>Age: 31
>Nationality: USA
>Job: Engineer
>average length of vacation: 1 week to 1 month depends on location and my vacation time
>how do you manage time off to travel with your employer? They are okay with it. Pretty flexible. Although currently I only get two weeks of vacation plus 3 personal holidays, it gets increased to 3 weeks next year. So i am not complaining.

>>1289480
Actually I planned out all my vacation for next five years if things go according to my plan. Start having kids after five years. Hopefully my last trip before having kids is voyage to Antarctica.

>25
>American
>ESL memer
>4-6 months
I do my year in a country, save up and travel once my contract is up. I have been to 19 countries and none of them are Yuropean.

29
USA
University administrator, I get theee weeks vacation and five personal days a year. I take one trip a year lasting a month, otherwise I get plenty of long weekends and my office is closed during winter/ spring break anyway.

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31

Texas

Engineering Technician

My gf and I don't make much so we can only do a few days at a time, and nothing too exotic. Previous jobs allowed me to take 1-2 week trips though, I miss that. Oh, and I taught for a few years, and I would go solo wandering and camping for a month or so during summers

Fortunately, I'm an hourly contractor with my company, and my boss is very cool, so I can take off pretty much whenever I want...I just don't get paid. We're going out of town this weekend for a concert, so I'm just going to tell him tomorrow that I'll be out Monday. It's great not having to worry about HR and requests and shit like I used to do.

26
USA
Self-employed / contracting
4 weeks
Self-employed :)

>>1289256
I wish I was on your level but writing and selling stories seems like such a risky career path

24
Canadian
Own my own photo editing business. I make my own hours, schedules, and locations. Just came back from Taiwan. Going to Portugal next

>>1289496
>t. digital nomad
Can you recommend any good trench coats?

34
French (Reunion)
Independant "teacher" for adults (professional training)
Own a trading company
As of recently (June), part time worker for a government owned professional training centre (as a sales manager)

The last gig provides me with 10 weeks paid leave (public servant FTW gotta love muh socialism, private sector still has 5 weeks/year).

For the past 8 years tho I was 100% self employed so I could take however long vacations I wanted, I just would not get paid.
I usually take a 3 weeks to 1 month trip to France yearly, then 2 to 3 additional weeks throughout the year, budget according.
Don't know how to deal with the paid leave I have now, so far I've just cashed them in while still working on my own trading company.

>>1289439
whitewater is the best fucking song ever

22
USA
Final Semester College Student/Grocery Store Employee
Vacations are usually 4 to 9 days
I have to request the days of manually, I get very few paid days off.

>>1289520
What?

>>1289493

I'm not planning to write for the rest of my life.

Like I said, I'm still in university. I'll graduate with two BSc degrees within the next year and a half. After that I'd like to do the Peace Corps in conjunction with an MSc program and then eventually get a PhD.

Writing is a great way to make some easy money, especially if it comes naturally and you're a fast typist. One of my contracts with a law firm pays $20 per 400-word article; I do about 40 per month for $800 in total.

I type 150 words per minute and can usually knock out a decent piece in twenty minutes, so I don't work on those projects for more than five or six hours per week.

It's a great job to have as a young person, but I don't want to be at the mercy of someone else's budget for the rest of my life.

Definitely want to keep doing this through grad school, since I can work from anywhere I want. It's really, really good for traveling, but I'm well aware it doesn't provide much in the way of security.

>Age
33
>Nationality
American
>Job
Unemployed
>average length of vacation
About a month
>how do you manage time off to travel with your employer?
Inheritance my friend.

>>1289846
If you don't have a job, why don't you take a longer vacation?

>>1289211
29
USA
Banking
Don't like living out of a suitcase for more than 2 weeks
5 weeks paid vacation +10 holidays

>>1289863
Why? WTF would you do after a month? I'm usually bored and ready to come back before that. Are you guys gypsies or something?

>>1289907
B8 or either you are retarded.