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How was your week?
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Long weekends are a tough one for me, since I'm still at my old American job working remotely. They don't really do bank hols, so I ended up just having a normal two day weekend buttressed by awkward working days with the kid and most things shut.
Definitely happy with the warmer days though. Winter felt like it lasted half the year yet never really hit hard.
That's annoying that you don't get the UK bank holidays off! How does it work in terms of the amount of annual leave you get?
Recently I took a hefty pay rise to have my compensation restructured to a 1099 employee (independent contractor), so basically I work when I want paying, which is still most of the time. For actual leave it's as simple as saying "I won't be in during x" and at least theoretically, that's that. With a bigger team it's not as if the business grinds to a halt without me anymore.
It's not yet clear how much holidaymaking they'll put up with (Americans being workaholics generally), so I tend to keep fairly normal office hours. Though I do start late and work a little in the evening, just to make time for calls to the west coast and maintaining a presence in my inbox.
It's kind of nice not having to work before 10am, since I've never done anything worth a damn that early anyway. Mornings are for school runs, chores, and mild amusements imo!