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So what do I vote? "Not employed"? Or "over 6 weeks"?
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Since I'm a geezer, and have been here forever, I get four weeks of vacation a year. We also get ten paid holidays a year.
Due to the economy, we get some extra special time off this year.
During the July 4th holiday, the plant will be shut down, meaning that we are required to reserve three days of vacation for that week.
We're also required to take an unpaid week of 'furlough' some time before the end of the year  The hourly folks are allowed to spread it out across all of their paychecks between now and then. Us overpaid salaried types get to take home half a paycheck at some point; the accounting for the IRS doesn't let them split it up.
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Gary Wheeler wrote: we get some extra special time off this year.
yeah, same here.
i'm on "vacation" from mid-July until ... until i find a new job.
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Trust me, I realize I've got it good, comparatively speaking. I know too many folks who are in dire straits (or will be soon) due to your variant of 'extra special time off'.
The idea of having to hunt for a new job scares the crap out of me. I'm 47 years old and at the top of the pay scale for my area. My primary background is C++, Windows, and near real-time process control applications. I've been doing C#/.NET/WPF for about six months now, so that experience is effectively meaningless, resume-wise.
My chances of replicating my current salary and benefits in this area any time soon are minimal. The few jobs that are available seem to all be entry-level (<5 years) or short-term contract positions. Most of the jobs are defense contracting, which I loathe, having done it before.
Good luck finding a new job ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) .
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6 months is a Senior Developer these days :p
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Based on that metric, I'm positively Jurassic.
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It may be worse than you think; nearly all the jobs I see require ASP.net (some require VB!) so my four years of writing Windows Services in C# aren't getting my foot in the door.
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All too true. I have no web application and minimal data base experience, which is what most of the job boards seem to want. While I could become proficient at it in fairly short order, I can't imagine most companies wanting to wait. This is expecially true when there is so much cheap web-development labor out there.
Software Zen: delete this;
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You make me feel lucky that I am at the bottom of the pay scale. I guess I have less lose.
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To tell you how much of a geezer I am, the first thing I thought of when I saw your nick 'PDPKid', I thought of this[^]  .
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Time to get a new job. That's accounts to slavery in my books.
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Norm .net wrote: me to get a new job. That's accounts to slavery in my books
I bet most of them are independent contractors - that's hardly slavery 
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: I bet most of them are independent contractors
I am a freelancer and I voted for 4 weeks or less.  (summer, Christmas and some other time accounts to over 3 weeks for me, not counting the public / statutory holidays).
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Norm .net wrote: That's accounts to slavery in my books.
If that is the definition, in India, people from most of the startup organizations would be getting grouped under this bonded labor syndrome. The powerful managers relax themselves in cozy homes and cool resorts whereas the next tier developers find themselves stranded from dawn to dusk debugging only to see that the bountiful harvest is reaped by the managers alone.
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