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Journal Red Warrior's Journal: Seven year ache 5

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Today is officially the start of my eighth year with current employer. Now, instead of getting 10 hours of vacation a month, I get 10.667 hours.

And either today or on the 26th (six months in current position), I get my next (and final) step increase.

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  • So, I'm assuming that since you've been there so long, you are happy there? And it takes 7 years of service to get that extra day? Or are you getting extra days every year?
    • Eh. It's OK as places to work go. I'm not gonna dance a jig, but I'm not gonna complain either. The pay is well below average for programmers, but then so is the stress, and you get all the spiffy public employee benefits. And the cost of living is significantly lower here than in the Seattle/Bellevue area.

      I'd like to make more money, but so far don't want to make the trade-offs that would be required to do so.

      You start out with 13 days of leave a year (including a "personal holiday"), get a day at the seco
      • I would trade money for stress any day of the week. As stressful as my job is, it is waaaaaay less stressful than my previous job. It pays less, but it isn't sucking the life out of me either. Congrats by the way :-)

  • Six (Score:2)

    by pudge ( 3605 ) *
    I'm in my sixth year at this job. Because I have >5 years (final step), I get 200 hours/25 days of vacation time a year (7.69 hrs/biweekly, or approx. 16.67 hrs/month). I can carry a maximum of 240 hours, and I have lost some vacation time because I didn't use it ... it's actually somewhat of a problem, because I basically get a day off for every biweekly paycheck, and it can be hard to use it all up.

    During ski season I try to take every Monday off to go skiing, but that didn't work out the last two ye

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