[akaivyleaf]

I would love to get paid for my vacation days... only because I need to balance them out and get it down to a managable level. No such luck, it accrues at an obscene rate and rolls over from year to year. The only good think is that after so many hours it gets forfeited into retirement hours. If I acrue 1920 hours in retirement, I can retire a year earler. The bad part of that is, if I leave without retireing, I don't get those forfeited retirement hours just my regular accrued annual leave hours. I've been here long enough, I can retire so... I'll never catch up. They call me the leave donation queen around here. I donate leave to coworkers who have serious illnesses, or have had babies etc.

As far as liking my job.... I get here super early and do the important stuff- the rest of the day I have an endless stream of people who have a whole range of problems for me to solve. Then they finally go home, and I'm still here to get my other work done. On Fridays- don't disturb me AT ALL. Some folks have my cell phone number to catch me on Friday but they've learned I'll ignore their call. I like the job, I do it well and the schedule I work affords me work time, and enjoyable off time. Having as much leave as I do, affords me the luxury of not coming when I want to go away and so its great.