Vacation

Things really need to change by putting all these folks back to work!
We’ve got to pay for our pensions (well-earned at 55, mind you) after all
We’re counting on our government

Hi there, if you're going on vacation, enjoy it to the fullest because things might get rocky when you return.
Today, the CAC 40 is in the red, and if you're a manager in a company, you might even be called back to the office in August.
All because of the unpredictability of the person leading the USA.
Seeing that their measures aren't working, it wouldn't surprise me if they pull another Trafalgar on us.

That's what some Americans told me.More seniority, more vacation days!We could adapt this for France.Retirement at 65, but one extra week of vacation per year starting at 60 (funded by the state, not the employer, based on a minimum wage, for example)!60: 6 weeks
61: 7 weeks
62: 8 weeks
63: 9 weeks
64: 10 weeks
65: time to retire...

And here’s the provisional lineup for the shadow government:Dolma is appointed Minister of Culture
Attila is appointed Minister of Holidays, in charge of Labor
Mathews is appointed Minister of the Economy and Phynances
JojoOne is appointed Secretary of State in charge of Remigrations
Djalma is appointed Undersecretary of State for Soft Mobilities, in charge of Vacuity

And of course Voyajou in First Class Disaster.

Wasn’t that the Ministry of Free Time?
So, I’m taking over from Edwige Avice.I don’t know if I can handle work *and* everything else in just 35 hours a week...
I’m a realist, me!

I don’t think a small non-indexation will make much of a difference. At most, they’ll dip into their full savings accounts and other life insurance policies.
Nothing new—it’s always us who end up paying for other people’s mistakes; our spot in travelers’ paradise is already secured.

@ everyoneFour words that intertwine and two pages of replies ! Wow, that’s something else Comments on politics, retirement, work, and vacation (seems like ecology is missing) are bickering and applauding, questioning and congratulating each other.
I think we’ve just formed a new National Assembly that, of course, looks just like the previous ones—because, as we all know, nothing ever really changes.I’m really enjoying reading you all Just one thing that strikes me: I wonder how it’s possible to choose a job (with little interest?) just to get the vacations.
A passionate job is still a huge advantage when you calculate how many years we spend working!

Unless you're really passionate, even a job you love can't withstand the wear of time. Everything becomes routine so quickly.Many who chose a boring job probably don’t have an exciting private life either.
My job didn’t often excite me, but once I was out, I enjoyed the pleasures and freedom it afforded me even more.
I think some people deliberately choose a well-paid but less interesting job over one they’d enjoy but that pays less.You could even write a poem about those first moments of vacation—a gulp of pure happiness. A blank page, broken chains, a vast horizon filled with dreams and discoveries, a long-lost energy returning as if by magic, a life coming back to life.

hi there,Not that off-topic... isn’t *otium*—briefly, free time—a contradiction of work?
Etymologically, and everyone knows this, *travail* means torture.
But boredom can also be mental torture
It’s certain that when traveling, you eventually get really bored, whether on vacation or in retirement.
Patong Beach or Miami Beach or Ibiza—it’s almost deadly dull...
No retirement reform on the horizon since retirees are happy being retired and living by the sea, QED.
But that’s another topic, already discussed on this forum, I think, ha ha.