How many vacation days off do you take a year?
Specifically asking as trying to figure out how many is reasonable for an associate to senior associate level to take.
[{"id": "ewbggl2", "text": "How many are you alotted?", "replies": [{"id": "ewbgjtz", "text": "Just curious what\u2019s reasonable. For a junior broker essentially so commission only.", "replies": [{"id": "ewch0w6", "text": "Depends on your senior broker. Some brokers take all summer off and expect the junior broker to do all the work when they are gone. Others are not complete assholes. \nIf you are getting pushback on taking a break from your senior broker, he may be an asshole and you have no days off.", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "ewbgjqi", "text": "Senior associate I would assume is at 3 weeks min and more depending on the company and policy.  May have to earn more weeks with tenure.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "ewbpzma", "text": "I wouldn't take very many at all. Maybe a Friday or Monday to extend a weekend.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "ewbq42x", "text": "It\u2019s the hardest thing to manage as a young broker. You don\u2019t have days off, but you aren\u2019t required to work at all if you don\u2019t want to. It\u2019s easy to feel guilty taking any time off when you aren\u2019t making much money. But you will be even less productive if you don\u2019t. So enjoy your time off, recharge the batteries but don\u2019t go crazy. Also it\u2019s best to take time off when the industry as a whole is slow anyways: Christmas week, Labor Day week, forth of July etc", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "ewco7h7", "text": "Is there a way to set goals based on production/performance and leave that metric open? If you limit the # of vacation days they can take to a number below industry average, you'll drive them into the arms of another firm. However, you don't want them taking vacation and then missing production targets. \"unlimited vacation\" with production targets is interesting because most people take 2-3 weeks or less a year, and the ones who take more are either a) using you, and will end up termed for not meeting goals or b) are your best performers, why tie them down? Let everyone else in the office see that if you generate $1M (or whatever) in sales a quarter, you can take vacation with impunity.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "ewe4l89", "text": "In my first few years I would take all fridays and some Thursday\u2019s in the summer. Usually check out around Thursday at lunch so I could be the traffic to the lake house. With a laptop and phone there wasn\u2019t much I couldn\u2019t access.  Any client tours I would try and schedule for start of week etc. Just make sure your work gets done and go about taking whatever days off you want.  Usually now I\u2019m a Monday- Wednesday. Ill pop in Thursday and Friday if something important is going on but for the most part, the lack of hard schedule is why I chose this career in the first place.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]