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> I'd be surprised if I took 60 days of vacation in 30 years as an FTE.

Are you saying that you'd be surprised to have taken 60 days (12 weeks) in a single year, or that across 30 years you don't think you've taken 60 days in total?

The latter would be very surprising to me, but seems to be the most natural reading of your sentence.

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The latter. I'd have to sit and tally it up. It's possible that I'm slightly low in my estimate but not by a tremendous amount. I realize that that's only a couple of days a year. I'm not including getting sick in that swag.

Typically I'd work for somewhere for 5 years and then pocket the vacation when I left. There might be a single week (or two) off and a handful of Fridays off in that time.

I'll tell you when the non-vacation time comes up is when you become a FT contractor. If the money flows, you row.

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