Making money during extended vacation

UTfball68 said:
Doesn't really fit your parameters...but I know tons of CPA's that work in manufacturing that will take 2-3 weeks off after W2's come out, and then another 2-3 weeks before April 15th. I've known people to make $20-30k extra...
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Ha, when I first read this I thought you were saying CPAs were taking off to work in manufacturing and made mad bank. I was like WTF manufacturing does a CPA do.
drkelly said:
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Use the vacation to do something you enjoy.
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I generally agree with this. And this year I will be taking ~3 weeks off b/c I never use my vacation time, using it to mostly do a bunch of house & car projects.

To be clear, this wasn't really about me. Just a curious idea for discussion. A coworker and I were talking about it the other day. There are some jobs where you can really let it accumulate. Teachers have kind of a similar situation. My grandfather was a history teacher and worked construction during the summer.
I love my job and have flexible hours, so I tend to work 9.5 hr days, and hit the 80 required hours / 2 weeks early, netting a free day off regularly. Stack that w/ a holiday almost every month, and I rarely use vacation time. What started he talk was how it sucked they won't just let us sell back the time to get paid extra salary and keep working. then it became, well if you're just sitting at time, might as well do something else to make money...

We had a guy that retired awhile ago who was Indian. Never took vacation, except every year he'd leave in early Dec for India and come back 2nd week of Jan. We're pretty sure he had some kind of side gig going on there.
 
To bad you can't "bank" a certain amount of time my buddies that work with the forest service are allowed to roll over 240 hrs a year year after year. Most guys retire a year or two early doing that

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drkelly said:
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Use the vacation to do something you enjoy.
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To be honest I enjoy what I do for the most part.I enjoy looking at other peoples stuff and pickin out the gems.I always take a day to visit the pull a part or some old junkyard or chase stuff I found on Craigslist.To me that's more enjoyable than sittin my big ass on the beach or goin to Disney.

Loganwayne said:
To bad you can't "bank" a certain amount of time my buddies that work with the forest service are allowed to roll over 240 hrs a year year after year. Most guys retire a year or two early doing that

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I know a guy who's dad retired like two years early by saving up all his time like that.
 
Loganwayne said:
To bad you can't "bank" a certain amount of time my buddies that work with the forest service are allowed to roll over 240 hrs a year year after year. Most guys retire a year or two early doing that

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All Fed employees can do that. But, you can only carry over 240 total. Any more and you lose it. That's only 6 weeks.
The way you retire early is by never using sick leave. 13 days/ year. That accumulates indefinitely. I always take vacation time when I'm sick, not sick leave, just for this reason.

Here's a fun idea re: that 240 hr carryover.
Lets say you're a 15+ year career Fed. You get 5 weeks a year total time off.
You could start a year w/ that bank full. accumulate more during the year. Then take off the last 5 weeks of the year. Which (if the right year) includes 3 holidays so you'll get 5.5 weeks. Then in Jan start burning down that bank for another 6 weeks.... for a total of > 11.5 weeks off straight.
 
RatLabGuy said:
All Fed employees can do that. But, you can only carry over 240 total. Any more and you lose it. That's only 6 weeks.
The way you retire early is by never using sick leave. 13 days/ year. That accumulates indefinitely. I always take vacation time when I'm sick, not sick leave, just for this reason.

Here's a fun idea re: that 240 hr carryover.
Lets say you're a 15+ year career Fed. You get 5 weeks a year total time off.
You could start a year w/ that bank full. accumulate more during the year. Then take off the last 5 weeks of the year. Which (if the right year) includes 3 holidays so you'll get 5.5 weeks. Then in Jan start burning down that bank for another 6 weeks.... for a total of > 11.5 weeks off straight.
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The guy I knew worked at a state ran mental hospital for like 30 years or something.
 
1-tonmudder said:
The guy I knew worked at a state ran mental hospital for like 30 years or something.
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Shit, after that I'm sure he needed to retire early.o_O
 
RatLabGuy said:
We had a guy that retired awhile ago who was Indian. Never took vacation, except every year he'd leave in early Dec for India and come back 2nd week of Jan. We're pretty sure he had some kind of side gig going on there.
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It is very common for people from India to go back for a month every year or two. Families and extended families mean much more over there than it does here, when they go back it is an event because you haven't seen them in a while. Heck, people in India often go see there family every weekend that is sometimes a 6 hour drive. The culture is much different. I have to travel to India every so often for work, actually I am in India right now while typing this.
 
Loganwayne said:
To bad you can't "bank" a certain amount of time my buddies that work with the forest service are allowed to roll over 240 hrs a year year after year. Most guys retire a year or two early doing that

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FIL is the Central NC director for Lutheran Homes...has been getting 8-10 weeks of PTO for the last 15 years, they allow carry over. Last check he had about 3800 hours unused. As a finance guy, I'd absolutely hate carrying that liability every single month.

RatLabGuy said:
Ha, when I first read this I thought you were saying CPAs were taking off to work in manufacturing and made mad bank. I was like WTF manufacturing does a CPA do.
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Nah...just meant not in Public accounting any other time of year...and take off during peak tax return weeks.
 
RatLabGuy said:
Shit, after that I'm sure he needed to retire early.o_O
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He worked in Maint or janitorial or something like that.He didn't directly deal w patients.
 
You could do some seasonal farming and help a local farmer pick his crop.

Find a way to get out on a fishing boat for a few weeks and help out. $ seems to be pretty decent.
 
rockcity said:
You could do some seasonal farming and help a local farmer pick his crop.

Find a way to get out on a fishing boat for a few weeks and help out. $ seems to be pretty decent.
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both of those could suck in Dec/Jan, lol.

Taking off to work a fishing boat could be a lot of fun though.
 
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