I haven’t taken more than 5 days straight off of work since I started at the company I work for now. I’ve taken two weeks off, but I worked one day each of those weeks.
This will be the first time in quite awhile. I’m blessed to work in a company that believes strongly in work/life balance and wants to make sure that people take off when they want/need to to make sure that they feel taken care of.
Today was the final workday before I will get married. I get married Sunday and I won’t be working tomorrow or at all next week. Part of me is excited, and part of me is scared as to what may go down while I am out of the office. Everything that I can think of is covered, but I’m sure there are things that will happen that will be out of my control.
I have had numerous conversations with my co-workers this week in which part of me feels the less stressful thing to do would be to work an hour each day to make sure I don’t get too far behind. This would be a bit extreme, but it does seem like at least doing an email sweep each day will help ease the nerves of being gone for such a long amount of time.
Work is a tool. A great one. I’m very grateful for the job I have, but part of what makes me grateful is the ability to put it on the backburner for a little while while I put together some other areas of life.