I don't know of any job that offers more than two weeks of vacation a year, but I am sure a few must exist here somewhere. In the best paying job I ever had, I didn't get a vacation for 5 years. The owner always told me he couldn't spare me. We would get Christmas day, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Memorial Day, and New Year's day, and he would moan alot about that. Several times a year I had to travel and work from 8am to 10pm when the company did presentations at trade shows. I started on that job at $4 an hour as a staff artist and eventually became creative director, with a bigger share in profit sharing and a bonus at the end of the year. In that job, the last two years out of 8 years total were the ones that paid decently. Income and property taxes are high in Montana. Even low income people pay a miniumum amount of income taxes. The state is too large with too few people to support it, so they are desperate for revenue. I have never had a job that gave a paid vacation. I had one job with OK health insurance. Have no health insurance now. My last health crisis cost me over a thousand dollars to get some tests done... which were inconclusive.

There is a new forum in the Annexe on the subject of jobs and working if people would like to continue discussing it there.

Alice