A continuous 30 day vacation is only 20 working days or so. In my country that’s the government mandated minimum.
I think 25 or 30 workday paid vacation mandate is better for your mental health and productivity.
I actually get “unlimited” paid vacation days, which sounds like a bit of a shady practice. But I’ve already taken 30 days this year and I get absolutely no complaints. I’m planning on taking at least one more week this year.
I can’t imagine not having any vacation days. America sounds nice and all if you’re making 150k+ but I’d hate to work there at median income.
A gigantic portion of our population makes 50-60k each so household income looks like 100k+ until you look and see that there are plenty of perpetually single people like myself “stuck” only making 60k with 10 vacation days.
Things will never improve if we don’t point to something better and aspire to it.
It’s why Canada sucks so much. Every time one of our problems is being talked about, everyone compares ourselves to the US and shrugs. When you point to something better it’s unattainable, but at least we’re not as bad as america!! We’re a country of apathy.
What’s the point of this whole platform if we’re not exchanging experiences?
I know there there was a feeling by some back on Reddit that Europeans like pissing on the US without self-reflection. Maybe that is partly true, but you also don’t read any of the self-reflections because chances they are in our native languages.
But for me personally I have considered moving to the US as a skilled worker, which if possible is a privileged position to begin with. I’m in a field that pays much better in the US so I am still envious of colleagues in the US making 1.5 to 2 times what I do. But I just don’t love my job. I’m pretty good at parts of it, but I hate (read: am bad at) some other necessary parts of my job. So in the end my career options are somewhat limited. So yeah, there is probably a degree of cognitive dissonance involved.
Here is a list of things wrong with the Netherlands, just to balance shit
Dutch childcare benefits scandal: Government falsely accused vulnerable citizens of fraud, leading to children being placed out of the house, bankruptcies, and even suicides
Youth minimum wage (though being phased out)
Labour exploitation through flexible contracts
Terrible working and housing conditions for foreign slaughterhouse workers
Nitrogen crisis
Housing crisis, partly because of demographic developments (fewer people per house, slight growth through immigration) but now also because of the nitrogen crisis
The government basically forced hundreds of asylum seekers to sleep outside last summer because of budget cuts which are probably popular with a certain constituency
Earthquakes crisis in Groningen because of natural gas extraction, with a government turning a blind eye to people who saw the value of their houses tank because of structural damage
And that’s before you get to all the things you could say for any developed western capitalist nation.
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A continuous 30 day vacation is only 20 working days or so. In my country that’s the government mandated minimum.
I think 25 or 30 workday paid vacation mandate is better for your mental health and productivity.
I actually get “unlimited” paid vacation days, which sounds like a bit of a shady practice. But I’ve already taken 30 days this year and I get absolutely no complaints. I’m planning on taking at least one more week this year.
I can’t imagine not having any vacation days. America sounds nice and all if you’re making 150k+ but I’d hate to work there at median income.
A gigantic portion of our population makes 50-60k each so household income looks like 100k+ until you look and see that there are plenty of perpetually single people like myself “stuck” only making 60k with 10 vacation days.
2/10 would not recommend.
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Things will never improve if we don’t point to something better and aspire to it.
It’s why Canada sucks so much. Every time one of our problems is being talked about, everyone compares ourselves to the US and shrugs. When you point to something better it’s unattainable, but at least we’re not as bad as america!! We’re a country of apathy.
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What’s the point of this whole platform if we’re not exchanging experiences?
I know there there was a feeling by some back on Reddit that Europeans like pissing on the US without self-reflection. Maybe that is partly true, but you also don’t read any of the self-reflections because chances they are in our native languages.
But for me personally I have considered moving to the US as a skilled worker, which if possible is a privileged position to begin with. I’m in a field that pays much better in the US so I am still envious of colleagues in the US making 1.5 to 2 times what I do. But I just don’t love my job. I’m pretty good at parts of it, but I hate (read: am bad at) some other necessary parts of my job. So in the end my career options are somewhat limited. So yeah, there is probably a degree of cognitive dissonance involved.
Here is a list of things wrong with the Netherlands, just to balance shit
And that’s before you get to all the things you could say for any developed western capitalist nation.
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IMO much better than workaholic executives who use their own unhealthy lifestyle as justification to inflict it on others.
You need more, mate.
At 42 days here. We can spread them out over the year