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July 1, 2018 by Eric Butts 2 Comments

Here’s why you NEED to take all of your vacation every year

It’s scary isn’t it?

But at the same time it feels pretty good.

You know what I’m talking about – putting up that out of office and going off the grid.

It’s interesting, it seems the more you move up the ranks, the more scary this is, until you’re the big boss. Read: partner in consulting speak. I think the campus hires often may not have enough responsibility to be concerned. Or the prioritization of career over vacation may be heavily skewed toward the latter.

If I had to visualize it, I think it would look something like this:

PTO

You might be thinking this is about to be another post about millennial entitlement or something like that but it’s not. It’s something entirely different. Instead, I want to talk about why it’s important to take that time off and why the new generation gets it right.

I’m sitting on a plane right now thinking about how I want to get this (vacation) right this time and more importantly why I NEED to, and so do you.

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Filed Under: Career Advice Tagged With: career advice, career management, paid time off, vacation

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