What's your relationship with your PTO? Are you smart with it or do you not really use your days?

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I used to really overthink it and try to be strategic about how I used it. And that didn't make the days any more enjoyable, it just seemed to add aggravation. I take a week off in spring and a week off in fall, and days here and there as things come up. There's no grand strategy and I've come to prefer it that way.

Best believe when I have a day off built up I am taking a day off. I feel like if I earned it then I should use it. I sometimes save it up if I have a vacation coming up and need like a week off but otherwise my PTO does not sit with many hours in it haha.

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