Problem
Americans get shorter holidays than workers in some other countries. But the holidays are flexible. You could choose to work on Christmas Day, and perhaps get paid overtime, and add a day to a long weekend with a national holiday Monday, to make a four-day break.
If you lose your job, you can take a holiday. Then when you go for job interviews, you have a smile on your face and a positive attitude. If you've spent a year travelling, it looks like that was the reason why you gave up your job.
You can plan more than a year of travels. You can plan out the number of cities or countries you want to visit in your life, and at what age? A round-the world cruise or plane ticket when you retire?
How many years do you have left to travel? A survey by Saga, a British company specialising in holidays for the over fifties, found that the types of holiday differed with different age groups. The newsly retired, in their fifties or early sixties were doing long haul trips whilst they stilll could Those in their seventies were staying nearer to home. Those in their eighties were starting to take day trips and weekend rahter than long holidays, and holiday s in Great Britain rahter than overseas.
(Insurance affects this, too. Over seventy, eighty and ninety, it is increasingly difficult to get insurance.)
Useful Websites
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html Shows your life in weeks.
Author
Angela Lansbury
Americans get shorter holidays than workers in some other countries. But the holidays are flexible. You could choose to work on Christmas Day, and perhaps get paid overtime, and add a day to a long weekend with a national holiday Monday, to make a four-day break.
If you lose your job, you can take a holiday. Then when you go for job interviews, you have a smile on your face and a positive attitude. If you've spent a year travelling, it looks like that was the reason why you gave up your job.
You can plan more than a year of travels. You can plan out the number of cities or countries you want to visit in your life, and at what age? A round-the world cruise or plane ticket when you retire?
How many years do you have left to travel? A survey by Saga, a British company specialising in holidays for the over fifties, found that the types of holiday differed with different age groups. The newsly retired, in their fifties or early sixties were doing long haul trips whilst they stilll could Those in their seventies were staying nearer to home. Those in their eighties were starting to take day trips and weekend rahter than long holidays, and holiday s in Great Britain rahter than overseas.
(Insurance affects this, too. Over seventy, eighty and ninety, it is increasingly difficult to get insurance.)
Useful Websites
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html Shows your life in weeks.
Author
Angela Lansbury
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