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0 pointsramon1561mo ago0 comments

Work culture is so weird. What do you mean, it's reserved for the elites?

In my country you get to build your holiday days, so I could totally take a month off if I don't take any other days off this year. Hell, we even have a website to perfectly time it here so you get the most bang-for-your-days. lmao.

I will never comprehend this Silicon Valley mindset. You can also be a 10x engineer while drinking a martini in the balkans.

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ilikecakeandpie1mo ago· 2 in thread

Lives don't exist in vacuums. If I could uproot my close friends and family and we all moved to the same place then I would, but that's not possible. I'm sure it's the same for a lot of people

ambicapter1mo ago

What does uprooting your friends and family have to do with taking a month off once in your life?

ilikecakeandpie1mo ago

This was mostly in response to "You can also be a 10x engineer while drinking a martini in the balkans." and is likely a bit of an overreaction to the amount of "just move if you don't like it!" things I've seen. Mobility is a luxury

Uprooting family and friends has little to do with taking a month off, but if things don't fall right then one runs the risk of spending their month off mostly by themselves which may or may not be attractive. I've known single teachers complain about this that they have June-August off but no one to spend it with because most of their friends are not teachers

markus_zhang1mo ago

You are right. I was mostly thinking about a sabbatical of about 3 months.

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