American Workers Leave 460 Million Vacation Days Unused
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Let me get this right…we Americans get less than other workers abroad…we leave days on the table…AND we feel guilty when we do take vacation. Pretty pathetic huh? But that’s the latest according to a survey commissioned by Expedia.com. Yet as I sit here in my kitchen writing this blog, I find myself one of these sad statistics. See right now I should have been aboard a cruise ship enroute to the Bahamas, but…and isn’t there always…there was work and…
In all fairness, probably a bigger reason for my last minute vacation cancellation had to do with the growing fear and angst I saw in my husband’s eyes at the thought of spending 5 days on a ship with our two teenage daughters after a track record of family vacation fiascos. I’m one of those Mom’s that seems to conveniently forget the past experience of “being trapped in the car or plane, the fighting, screaming, whining, complaining” when I think about the years’ vacation plan. And he remembers them vividly. Well the reality didn’t quite work out like the “Norman Rockwell” vision in my head. So here I sit writing a blog post after a long day of work.
Oh well. I guess this is why I tell my kids that they need to really love what they do for a living cuz they are going to be doing it a lot. And luckily I do.