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Do you have your next vacation planned?

Any time off in your future?

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Ryland G

I appreciate these new joke threads a lot

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Ben Sinclair

I'm going to take the first week of the Fringe off. I've lived there for 15 years, work at the place that built half the software, and I've never really been to anything before :)

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Tammy Lee

Oh ho! I thought your name looked familiar!
I built a Fringe website that uses the API I believe your company provides.

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Ben Sinclair

It's possible... I'm not sure we do the API though, I think we just do the sites.

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Daragh Byrne

I used to live on the Royal Mile for three years, Fringe time was always mental! But super fun. Never took the week/month off but always caught a lot of shows.

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Ross Henderson

I'd love to go to the Fringe! I really need to try and do it sometime.

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Emma Goto 🍙

I'm planning to take a week off before I take my JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) to get in some last minute study.

I'll probably use the rest of my leave on some time off over the Christmas and New Year's break.

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Avalander

First I read "any time off in your furniture?"

I definitely need vacation.

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Fernando B 🚀

I wood have said the same thing. 😁

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Juha-Matti Santala

Currently on my 4th week on the yearly holiday, returning to the office next Monday. I try to keep 4 weeks of holiday during summer and 1 during winter and then I'm lucky enough to work for a company that is flexible enough that I can take unpaid holidays to have longer weekends or recover every now and then with extra days off.

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Andreas Jakof

Those 4 weeks in summer... is this some Scandinavian thing? I heard, that in Sweden, usually in july everything stops, because who ever can, takes the whole month off.

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Juha-Matti Santala

Yeah, I live in Finland where you get 2.5 days of paid mandatory vacation per month worked which totals to 30 days. For each 5 days of holiday spent, you also lose one extra day (some old rule from the days when people worked 6d/wk).

So that makes it basically 5 weeks of holiday and people usually spend 4 of those during the summer and 1 during the winter.

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Ben Greenberg

Going to Florida at some point in the coming few months. Will be the first time our whole family has been back to the States together since we moved abroad a year ago! (Yes, a trip to Disney World is definitely happening.)

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Tim Smith

I’m planning my next 3 vacations at the moment. I spent the last year of my life in overdrive with no break in sight. I hurt people close to me because I got so high strung. I’m not making that mistake again.

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Alejandro López • Edited

I’ll take two weeks off on August/Sept.

One to spend with my father (haven’t seen him in over a year!) and the other one I’ll be visiting southern Chile with my girlfriend :)

So right now we’re checking out hostal pricing, plane tickets, alllll that jazz. Woohoo!

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Christopher Kade

Leaving for Athens to see my family in a month, and then off to Vancouver and the surroundings in September ! Can't wait to disconnect for a short while 😄

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Dane Hillard

Going to Mexico for a wedding in August and to Japan in the fall 😌

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Ben Halpern

Nice!