Piggleston PecanpantsI pieced together a staycation from taking Friday, Monday and Wednesday off which means I only worked five hours Friday on my own dime, my partner behind me asking "Why are you doing this?" Why? So I can have piece of mind while I'm gone. Vacation isn't really vacation anymore so much as it is agency to mold your own work hours and not have to answer the phone. It gives your employer the illusion they've done something for you when you're the one who worked to earn it.
I'm using some of my time to design again. I have an idea for a handbag that I hope I have enough time to make reality. It's one thing to give up your dreams 40 for hours a week but when you are salaried with a company that believes they own you, at a minimum, Monday to Friday, you don't have mornings or evenings to nurture your soul & it dies a little every day. We're being trained life is meant to serve your corporation. In return they pay you enough for rent or a mortgage & food and clothes.
If you give all you have to your corporate overlords, they consider you a good employee and they'll keep you, expecting 110% more productivity from you each year, until such time as you are no longer useful to them, at which point they'll drop you and pretend you never existed.
ZANitebug@LilPecan Absolutely.
Brendajos (She/Her/Hers)@LilPecan hmmm...I don't work at all on my vacation days with the small exception of deleting emails I won't need when I get back. I know you have a crazy employer but not all vacation is like what you are dealing with. :(
@Brendajos I'm trying to find something else but it's difficult with no time. I finally got a therapist to help but even squeezing her in, one hour a week, in the late afternoon, is a challenge. I always get many late assignments that day. It's almost as if they're trying to sabotage my efforts.