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Micro-retirement (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 8 months ago by rustydrd@sh.itjust.works to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] Bigfishbest@lemmy.world 86 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Hi, Norwegian here, we have 5 weeks vacation per year, mandated by law. Oh, and the government takes 10% of your paycheck every month and pays it all out in July, so you have the money to go on vacation. Strong labor unions is the recipe.

[–] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

American here. I work for a company that gives 5 weeks per year. It's great. I can take a 1-2 week vacation in the summer and various days and weeks off throughout the year. It doesn't hurt that my boss is great and almost never says no to time off. "Hey, this project is draining. I could really use a week off for mental recovery. It looks like nobody is off next week." "Go for it."

It's possible, fellow Americans. Unions are the way.

[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 months ago

5 weeks seems like a good minimum to shoot for, yeah. Even with technically "unlimited" vacation, I tended to take 1 week a quarter, 2 in the summer, and then whatever Christmas to New Year's is. I wish I could take more in the Summer of course, but it is what it is.

[–] onlyhall@aussie.zone 10 points 8 months ago

aussie here. 4 weeks. required by law.

[–] CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

My vacation money usually goes to taxes each year as a Dutch citizen.

It's a sick joke imo. "Here's the money we took from your wage for vacation, but also here are the tax bills that are equal to that amount".

Thanks i hate it.

I'm saving up my own wage for retirement and investing it myself because i have zero trust in these systems. I watched my dad get screwed out of a large part of his retirement money.

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I'm probably going to move out of Austria in a few months and the one thing that'll take a while to get used to is that in most other European countries you 'only' get 13 wages a year instead of the 14 I'm used to.