Billy Sticker tells the story of his brother, an engineer who negotiated six weeks of paid vacation but never takes it because work always comes first. He has four kids. The point: your children won't wait for you, but your job will.
My brother is an engineer. And he's been recruited a few different times to go to these different firms. And the great thing about that is he's got some negotiating power. You know, it's like, I don't need a new job. And one time, they went up pretty high on his salary, then they capped that off. And he's like, okay, well, hang on. Now, let's talk about vacation time. And he got them to give him, I think it was almost 6 weeks Paid vacation, and then later the next year, so he ended up taking the job. And later the next year, I was like, you know, hey, have you been using you know your vacation time? Because he's got four kids. He said no. He said man, there's too much stuff to do at work. And I was like, bro, what are you doing? You work for your family. Like your work's going to be there. Your kids aren't. I'm telling you, you're going to turn around and they're going to be gone. Take the vacation.
