Now that I'm working full-time, I've begun to realize the importance of regular days off. It's really difficult to get people to spend their hard-earned vacation on anything other than a multi-week blowout where they nuke four weeks of vacation all at once. It's important to take an extra day off here and there and I don't think it's something that happens often enough.
That being said, I have to wonder how things would be if we didn't have these culturally inbred notions like Thanksgiving. Yes, it's a goofy holiday and nearly nobody actually pays attention to the real meaning behind any of this, but I have to wonder if it nevertheless has a subtle impact on the way everyone looks at things. Even the most counterculture young damned teenagers understand that an entire nation celebrates something like Thanksgiving once a year—doesn't that make a statement in and of itself?
I'm honestly not too tied into this subject because I'm one of the many who really feels like this is yet another holiday. Yes, it's fantastic to take time off and spend it with the ones to whom I'm closest, but does the fact that it's Thanksgiving differentiate it in anyway from any other three- or four-day weekend during the year?
Not really.
I spend my vacation days a few at a time. I have done a Friday-Monday vacation twice since I've been full-time and I have randomly taken afternoons off because I just didn't feel like coming back after lunch. I'll do more long-weekend type vacations next year when I have more random events to attend I think. I am going on a 13 day long vacation in December, but because of Holidays and weekends, I'm only using 5 vacation days for the trip.
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