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[rgf207]

Wow, I've seen some threads go off the rails before, but I've never seen one about vacation planning take a sharp turn into Accounting!

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[BuzzBiteyear]

Wow, I've seen some threads go off the rails before, but I've never seen one about vacation planning take a sharp turn into Accounting!

Off the rails? The original question was a cleverly concealed accounting question.

 

[Virtucomp]

Off the rails? The original question was a cleverly concealed accounting question.

But you see all of the accounting is done to find the money to finance another trip to WDW. IF it was to pay for a new water heater no one would be interested.

I am an Electronics Engineer and Wife is an accountant. We stretch it to go for 8 days since both our companies 'say' that can's go without us any longer than that.

So which is better? 14 -18 days in the park or two 7 day trips in one year?
I always feel like I could use a second trip instead of staying longer.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

I am a computer programmer, and I currently have 25 days of PTO.

My wife is a teacher and has the summers off.

Normally we don't take a full 14 day vacation at Disney, although we did last July. Usually we got 8 or 9 days (with traveling).

 

[BuzzBiteyear]

But you see all of the accounting is done to find the money to finance another trip to WDW. IF it was to pay for a new water heater no one would be interested.

Funny thing is, I'm the cheap accountant, and the wife is an administrative engineer. Yet it is I that pushes for the 2nd WDW trip each year.




She has 4 weeks, I have 3, plus I "bank" 3 during tax season for the first 120 hours of OT I work. We'll generally go for 7-10 days, and once in a while throw in a quickie 3-5 day trip if airfare or resort discounts make it affordable.

 

[bumbershoot]

I don't see any one change his career from unemployed to a CEO just because he read this threat.

I don't see any CEOs posting!

Anyone in the Seattle area with customer-based thoughts and interesting computer/software skills could look to see if amazon needs them. That's why I was pretty specific with my info about where DH works! He didn't even do 2 years of college, but his abilities and skills have gotten him to be a product tester, which he's loving, and they have pretty darn good benefits (when you're not in CS, but since there's no CS in Seattle anymore that's moot).

 

[BradyBz12]

Off the rails? The original question was a cleverly concealed accounting question.

Ahhhhh, NOW I get it!

So which is better? 14 -18 days in the park or two 7 day trips in one year? I always feel like I could use a second trip instead of staying longer.

And for us, since we're coming from so far away (and driving) we figure we better pack in as many days as we can in one trip. But I gotta say, I would L-O-V-E to be able to squeeze in another trip during the year, just to break up the non-WDW monotony.

 

[PIRATEGIRL007]

Yep, they're talking furloughs here too...I honestly wouldn't mind a couple weeks off unpaid but my problem is, my other half works for the same city so we'd both get nailed yeah, I don't see a raise in 2011 either the way they're talking...

I feel you. There are definate perks of working together, but w/ the economy this past few years its been alot of negative. DH and I both work for same company and no raises for 4 years is getting old fast. In the past 12 months he escaped lay offs once and I managed to escape them 5 times in my department. I'm afraid my luck is going to start running out.

 

[tndisneyfan]

I work shift work so I get seven days in a row off every month. Add a weeks vacation to that and that's 14 days off.

 

[Goofy'slady]

State worker here, I only work a 4day work week (my choice), so that helps. Not to mention I have several weeks a year of vacation in addition to wacky holidays, personal days and regular holidays. All except for my annual vacation days I lose if I don't use by the end of the year. I always try my best to use up every drop.

My husband is a fabricator and every year he's with his company the more vacation time he gets each year. This year he gets 2 full weeks and the normal holidays most employers give their employees. Once and a while he'll take 1-2 days off without pay.

This year our vacation is from 4/10-4/21, those are the actual days we'll be away but my last day at work is April 8th and they won't see me until the 26th.

T.

 

[abolanwoski]

DH and I are both in the military and have always gotten 30 days off per year (weekends and holidays taken in conjuction with vacation are charged as days of leave). We've only done 2 weeks once but it was awesome and I'll do it again in the future

Good news to folks wanting more vaca - the US military is hiring!

 

[okiebill]

My wife and I both work for a major oil company and we get 5 weeks of vacation per year. No problem with 14 day vacations. We both learned a long time ago that the company really does operate just fine when we're gone on vacation. Sometime we return to a load of work, but not very often. The things that are important and need to be done right away, get taken care of by someone else.

 

[Redwolf8812]

State worker here also. Figures we just commited to buying BLT and now the new governor is talking lay-offs. We're sweating bullets!

 

[DisneyFan32WI]

ROFL...once you see the popcorn come out, you know this is gonna be a good thread!!!!

 

[Bouncin-Tigger]

Firefighter/paramedic in a big busy city here so compestaed very well and work 24 hours and off 48 and I work only 104 days a year so if I just put 4 of my 20 something vacation days a year back to back thats 14 days off, I do side jobs on off days and wife runs an ebay business that is very busy so as long as we pack our router and laptops she can check in. Luckily she only checks in the morning and before bed. In the vacation club and sister works for southwest so tickets are cheap but can be pricey especially since we try to go 3 times a year while kids are small.

 

[angierae]

My husband is self-employed, so we planned our (9 day) vacation during his less-busy time.

I'm a paralegal at a lawfirm. I will work extra hard in the weeks leading up to our vacation so that I'm ahead on my deadlines, and work extra hard when I get back to get caught up on the pile of stuff that will be waiting in my inbox.

I scheduled around our huge deadlines so there shouldn't be anything going on that can't wait a week and a half for me to get back, and if there is, they'll either figure it out or call me.

 

[justskip70003]

i am a tattoo artist and ash is a nurse.

 

[laracroft]

I have dreamed of staying 7-10+ days at Disney. All my trips so far have been 4-5 days. I get 3 weeks annual leave a year as does my DH. I work for the state and he's a cop. We are not rich, maybe if I play the lotto or the powerball I could stay a month!! Wow can you imagine how relaxed you'd be? Also I feel for all of you state workers around the country, no raise in 6 years and now possible furlow days starting later this year. We have recently started going to Disney so this year we are going twice. We started saving last Nov for our trip we just went on (1st week of March) and have already started saving for our October trip. DH and I are both working overtime for our trip.

 

[Thumper_Man]

More state workers here. DW and I both work for the same state government agency. We accrue annual leave and sick leave. Not to mention we get all the major holidays off. We use our tax refunds to go. We usually don't have a problem taking 2 weeks off at a time. But like many others, we're feeling the pinch of the economy here as well. Our state government have been sticking it to all the state agencies and employees. Trimming our budgets, issuing furloughs, raising our insurance rates, and even raising the percentage we put towards retirement. We've been lucky to avoid furloughs at our agency (knocking on wood), but if they keep going down this path; we may have to face them eventually. For a moment there, we were even debating canceling our WDW trip. So far it's still a go.

 

[AmberHeartsDisney]

Budget budget budget. That applys to any vacation. I work in a financial office my self & my DF works for a cable company. We could take off two weeks for vacation we just never do.