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Only fools take the whole summer off, it's so expensive to go holiday during peak time.
Better is;
2 weeks in the spring
2 weeks in the summer
1 week in the autumn
1 week in the winter
1 week kept spare so you can have odd mid week days off or a Friday and a Monday.
The best jobs, absolutely cream of the crop jobs that Americans can hope for give you 2 weeks of paid vacation, and half of the time you don't get to use it because they deny your shit or give you the run around. I have never met anyone who gets more than 3 weeks, and I have known/had family in high paying corporate jobs, government positions, the secret fucking service, and a cousin who was a fucking post master. The idea of 7 weeks of leave, to an American, especially one like me who's never even had a job that offers paid leave at all, feels like so much it seems like you'd never actually be at work. 7 weeks? Out of 52? Even though I know it, I support, I advocate for it, have for years, every time it comes up, it's fucking mind blowing how incredibly unlubricated the fucking of the american worker is
I have a colleague who has been at my company in the US for over thirty years. As a result, she was grandfathered in for many major benefit changes, like keeping her pension and the old PTO system. The old PTO system (90s) added days every other year or something with no cap. So she's constantly on vacation with all her PTO. The most you can accrue for long service now is 4 weeks, and that takes decades in theory.