At my last job, I got a grand 2 days of vacation time a year, and everyone got Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day off; that was it. I was more or less forbidden to use my vacation days, too; the fear of "something happening with the server" was too great to let me have time off.

I moved to a new job earlier this year, though, and I'm already set to take some vacation time; three days of it next week, in fact! It's actually kinda surprising to be able to do that, which is probably a little sad, but now I can attend some of the events that I missed out on for two years! It's going to be great to be able to take a day off here and there when I need an extra bit of time to unwind, and the previous job definitely taught me that such time is necessary on occasion 🙂