While I was sitting at one of Coventry’s many sets of roadwork-related traffic lights, yesterday evening, I started thinking about taking some time off from work.
Obviously, being self-employed, I’m not keen on taking any kind of time off.
Because I don’t get paid for it.
Holiday pay? Sick pay?
Neither of those.
But Easter is looming, and the combination of Good Friday and Bank Holiday Monday means four days off.
Wow, a four-day weekend.
Then I started wondering what I could do with a four-day weekend.
I soon realised that, bizarrely, four days away from work wasn’t long enough to achieve anything that I had on my traffic light-induced list.
Not comfortably.
The lights changed to green.
I drove on.
Only to be held at the next set of road-work-inspired traffic lights.
My brain returned to the subject of time off.
If I added two days of (unpaid) annual leave to the bank holiday weekend, I would have six days to play with.
Six days!
Yay!
That’s got to be long enough, right?
Right.
However, at the next set of traffic lights, I realised that if I added four days of annual leave to the bank holiday weekend, I would have ten (TEN!) days off.
And that’s where I am right now.
Sitting here, looking at one monitor that shows me different ways of applying four days of annual leave to the bank holiday weekend, so I end up with 10 days off, while another monitor is displaying ferry timetables.
And I’m thinking.
Hmmmmm…