Do you live to work or work to live?

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Do you live to work or work to live? Posted: 24 May 2011 06:16 AM PDT My per­sonal and work lives are a skitzy, con­vo­luted, multi-layered mash-up. Kind of like rum, coconut milk and pineap­ple juice make a piña colada  — if you miss one ingre­di­ent you don't have the final happy prod­uct. I feel for­tu­nate that my work rarely, if ever, feels like I'm work­ing for the man and when Mar­lene walks around hand­ing out pay stubs I tend to say, "Really, it's been two weeks again?" and "I can't believe I get paid for this." OK, I know I'm for­tu­nate. Still and all I do love to travel. Other times I like to hiber­nate in my house on a cre­ative binge for days on end (I wish I could muster lust for a clean­ing binge).  That's why when I read today's CNN arti­cle Why is Amer­ica the 'no-vacation nation'? I cringed, more than a lit­tle bit. So I'm sure did the 3,894 peo­ple who have share it on Face­book at this hour. Then I read the com­ments, not all by US workers. Some peo­ple are defen­sive, they take the stand that we're the great­est nation on earth and we didn't get that way by not working. Oth­ers point to suc­cess not being lim­ited to mon­e­tary wealth, but qual­ity of  life — you know, travel, fam­ily, friends, relaxation. The Fair Labor Stan­dards Act (FLSA) does not require pay­ment for time not worked, such as vaca­tions, sick leave or fed­eral or other hol­i­days. These ben­e­fits are mat­ters of agree­ment between an employer and an employee (or the employee's representative). Accord­ing to a Reuters/Ipsos poll cited in the arti­cle, only 57% of U.S. work­ers use up all of the vaca­tion days they're enti­tled to. They can't fit it in along with the demands of their employer. I'm rumi­nat­ing on this today, mulling it over, acknowl­edg­ing that I'm putting that trip to Sin­ga­pore off because with 2 day's travel each way, for Pete's sake I want to be able to spend at least a week there and not have it be the only time I can have a few days to myself dur­ing the rest of the year. Do you have some­where you would like to go or some­thing you would like to do that you can't because it doesn't fit in the employee hand­book (keep it legal dudes)? Post By Karla Porter http://www.karlaporter.com/who-is-she

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