How much time off do you typically take in a year?

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3-4 weeks a year. Life is too short my friends.

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Same, I settle $6-8M a year, I can take 3-4 weeks

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2 week vacation plus other time off around holidays/special events. 3-4 weeks total. You have to enjoy your life. Otherwise, why are we even doing this.

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I usually take 2 weeks plus holidays every year. Every 2 years I will take about 4 weeks off total to take another longer vacation with family or my spouse. I agree that life is too short. You'll start to resent coming back to work if you don't take enough time for yourself.

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I take 2 weeks off every 3 to 4 months.

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I try to take long weekends at least every other month, and 1-2 vacations with 3-5 days off throughout the year. The caveat is that I am a trial attorney so I can always make up for those billable hours even with time off. I average 2400+ hours per year even with taking time off to travel.

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The thing about taking time off in PI is that you tell yourself if you’re not working, you’re not making money. That’s true, to a point. Schedule your matters so that you can take time off. Calendar vacations so you don’t schedule depositions/trials during those periods. Plan ahead for discovery requests/responses. The key is to control your calendar.

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I take one full week, and about one more week in random days. I should take more time off but I feel guilty. I try not to take too much time off.

I get 16 days and I try to take all of them. They don't rollover and life is too short. I don't really care if it bothers anyone if I take more than 2 weeks a year. I usually do one big trip and then smaller trips. Plan to take 6 days of PTO in the fall (10 day trip with weekends). Then will take 3-4 days for a spring/summer trip to space it out. And then use the rest for very small trips and holidays.

Several weeks and most weekends, some random days if I don’t have anything calendared

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