There are days it doesn’t feel real to have this sort of benefit. But for the second time at the company, I am fortunate enough to take some time off called reCharge.
Every 5 years at the company you get a benefit where you get 30 days of time off plus you can tack on an additional 2 weeks of PTO. In total, I’ll be off for the next 6 weeks. Relaxing, reCharging, and most of all… NOT WORKING.
I’m very fortunate to work for the company that I do. One of the benefits that you get after being with the company for 5 years is a reCharge period of 30 calendar days off fully paid. This is a HUGE benefit and one that I’m very happy they have in place. After 5 years, you realize the toll the job can take on you. I’ll fully admit, at the end of last year my projects were plentiful, my team was growing, and the challenges we were tackling were pretty challenging. Thus… I was starting to get a little burned out. Luckily I had a few days off at the beginning of the year to put things back into persepective for me. Spending that time with your son in the PICU fighting RSV has a tendency to do that. You realize how lucky you are to have the insurance that you have. But… Time away is important to charge up the batteries. Without this, I’m not sure where my head would be necessarily.
Well, its been a few weeks since I posted and that’s for a pretty good reason. I have been taking some R&R in the great country of Germany. My wife and I escourted over her grandparents where we eventually met up with her parents. The total vacation was 12 days, but it seemed like 12 hours. It went by way too damn fast.
I’ll have pictures posted to the flickr account here in the next few days and will begin my semi-regular posting again here shortly.