I wish I could come. I lost out on the "lottery wheel of negotiating vacation time" moving to the new job. Heh. The only downside of MANY upsides. Went from my earned 4.4 weeks of paid vacation time to 2.
Now OSH is on the schedule, and everything else is getting shuffled. And OSH might have to get shorter for me if I hope to ever get this #@($*% Instrument Rating done!
Otherwise, I had it on the calendar and was ready to hop in the Skylane and head over that week.
It's one of those "nice problems to have" kinda things, I guess. I could be convinced that we need similar vacation time offered to most Europeans and Australians pretty easily right about now.
An Aussie friend who's been with the same company for 10 years has over two months of paid vacation time a year. Talk about him making me jealous... he came for a "U.S. Tour" one year, and dragged his family around the U.S. for a month, and still had a month and a half of time off coming to him that year.
Think we Americans would be a bit more intelligent about foreign lands and people if we could "get out more" and spend more than a week as a tourist somewhere?
The funny part about my friend's trip... he set up a U.S. bank account to make things "easier" and was shocked that "Bank of America" didn't have branches and ATMs in every State! LOL.... the power of Marketing.
