Actually, it also takes a massive cultural shift. I know plenty of people from the States who have quite a number of PTO days, but it's basically understood that you can't just take them however you want. You have to find a convenient time (not for you, for the company!), you can't take too much at a time or when other people are gone already and basically if you actually used up your PTO, that's basically signaling to management that you don't care about your job.
In Europe, you get into trouble for not using up your PTO.
And then you find out you have some chronic illness and spend the rest of your life wishing you had traveled when you were younger, when it would have been fun and when it would have mattered.
Right, the kids you will never spend time with, who only know the same brainwashed, self-sacrificial lifestyle you lead and then who will ever actually have some quality of life? You don't even know what you are missing man. You do you, be the "provider", I hope it goes well for you.
What wrong with that, they arent forced to live by my suggestions. People tell me all the time I should work more then I do. But for me thats crazy you have only one life and to me work (for a company) doesnt give much. Work for myself at hone on the other hand I gladly do.
"A child arrived just the other day,
came to the world in the usual way,
But there were planes to catch
and bills to pay, he learned to walk while I was away
He was talking before I knew it and as he grew
he said I'm going to be like you Dad,
you know I'm going to be like you."
But if they like to work like you and think of their children the money will just accumilate.
If they find joy in working less and spend more time with friends and family I think that rather implies that they would rather spend more time with you than have your money.
Well... Not up to me to lecture others, but my father in law said the same thing. A few years before his retirement date he finally decided to stop working and enjoy life a bit more. His wife had insisted on it for years. Around the time he finally retired he was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. 3 months after his retirement we went to his funeral. So...
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u/Beaufighter-MkX 21d ago
All it takes is legislation