How Does SnowNymph....

“...manage to get all that time off to go backpacking?

I mean really, thirty days a whack.

I am so jealous. Let me know how I too can do that.”

“She is the Editor-in-Chief of SnowNymph's Backpacking Journal. Don't you subscribe?”

“22 years at the same job, I accumulate hours weekly.

I have to make time for weekend trips.
I don't need much sleep(from child rearing days), plus the Starbucks mocha helps. I leave work Friday evening, backpack in Sat, dayhike and bp out Sun and drive home late Sunday. Stumble into work on Monday.

Today, I'll take 2 or 3 hrs no pay so I can save up for next years big trip to CO.”

“I worked for the same place for 15 years (Major Oil Co.). Had four weeks paid vacation. Switched to a small oil & gas company in April of 2000 because I got tired of all the layoff/downsizing that was going on (16 times in 15 years). Only bad thing about switching was losing two weeks paid vacation.

I have asked to take time off without pay, but they won't go for it. I did get a $10,000 bonus last christmass though!!!!”

“they switched our carry-over-time rules.

now, we are allowed to have 90 days accumulated, at any one time.”

“What, accumulate 90 days of work? I don't think you have been that productive this year.”

“Dam. That's sweet. I can get comp hours but usually they mean sacrificing a weekend day or sumtin. The increase in vacay here at work sucks. You start at the standard two and only add another week every 5 years. Fortunately, I;ve accumulated about 45 sick days. Guess what. I'm gonna be "sick" alot this winter once the slopes open.”

“I only go into work 180 days a year”

“She's a fairy, duhh. She uses fairy magic.”

“ten day's a month and four day's off at a shot. One day of vacation gives me a week off x seven a year. Not counting trade shifts. Yee Haw.”

“I get 5 weeks a year, but if I asked for a month off I'd be laughed at. My boss would say if they could live without me for a month they could live without me, period.”

“I know what you mean twigeater - I also have 5 weeks (six next year) but I find the best way to take them is to take every Friday afternoon off - helps be get to the good campsites before the most other people for the weekend. I'm really looking forward to the sixth week - means ten fridays where I take the whole day off - makes it easier to get to some of the ECTs. Unofrtunately there is no accumulation of vacation from year to year - its take it in the year or lose it.”

“In a couple of years my time will bump up to 5.5 weeks, that's the max. We can carry time from year to year but there's a limit - not sure what that is since it's never an issue with me!”

“The most vacation we can have is accumulate a year is 160 hours. And 16 hours earned for having perfect attendance.
And up to 15 sick days.

I wanna try to bank enough time off to be able to thru-hike the Cumberland trail when it's complete.”

“I just went to part time and they still give me full time vacation! That means I get 17 days a year. I work half days so I have 34 vacation days! Almost 7 weeks!!! YEA! Plus sick and personal time. AND I plan to work two ten hour days this summer so I'll have three days off a week....really long weekends. :oD”

“I'd take a month off and go on a looooong BPing trip.
Just leave Hyperpacker home with the new rat.”

“I plan on a ten dayer come August. Cain't wait!”

“Does Hyper know yet?”

“Yep”

“God I'm glad I work for myself.”

“So you'll be having a blast on the trail while he's up to his armpits in poo poo diapers. HAHAHA!!!!!!!”

“I do it everyday. (he does take a turn at night while I work but there's no pooh at night!) He can do it for a coupla weeks. Pooh's not so bad when it comes from your own sweet kid.

He is trying desperatly to get me to agree to leaving her with a Gramma for that long so he can come along.”

“Those guys reeeeallly appreciate me when I come back. And they tell me.

I've survived all the layoffs so far. Going thru one right now.”

“snow nymph....
what kind of work do you do??”

“Secretary”

“You don't have to to worry about a lay off. Your not there that much anyway.
LOL”

“I get 4 weeks a year, they prefer if I dont take it one hit, but, they cant really do much about it except grizzle about it when I get back.”

“I get 18 weeks off and Fridays too. That and the fact that I love what I do makes it a great job. However at this time in our family life I only get about 20 days of backpacking in a year. That should go up as kids leave home.”