What to do 2 weeks on vacation. How to spend a holiday at home: is it so boring? Why do you need a vacation?
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The closer summer is and the brighter the sun shines, the less desire to work. At this time, another desire clearly manifests itself - to use your right to rest, no less legal and sacred than the right to work. Let's figure out what rights the current legislation gives us in this regard.
It’s worth starting with the fact that compulsory paid leave in our country is 28 calendar days, and not a day less. Moreover, if an employee does not work full-time, this does not affect the duration of his vacation in any way. If part of the legal rest falls on public holidays, such days are not counted. Vacation pay is not accrued for them, but they are also not spent as vacation days. You can split your vacation as much as you like with the consent of the employer, but after Russia ratified the International Labor Organization Convention in 2010, one of the vacations must be at least 14 days. If you want to take your entire month's vacation at once, your employer has no right to prohibit you from doing so. On the other hand, if you want to divide your vacation into several, but your employer is against it, it won’t work out for you either.
What to do if you want to rest more? Firstly, workers under 18 years of age (31 days), disabled people, civil servants, prosecutors, investigators and judges (30 days), teachers and school employees (up to 42 days), doctors of science (48 days) and candidates (36); and healthcare workers (36). Employees of hazardous industries are also provided with additional paid leave. In addition, by agreement with the employer, the employee can take vacation at his own expense.
Remember the old Soviet joke?
Chief to subordinate:
Do you like warm vodka?
I hate it!
What about sweaty women?
Hate!
Great, you’ll go on vacation in February!
Unfortunately, this situation can happen to anyone. When drawing up a vacation schedule, the order of rest for employees is determined by the head of the company together with the trade union. The employee's opinion may be taken into account, but is not required. For example, teachers can rest only in the summer, when schoolchildren do not have lessons. The vacation schedule is drawn up at least two weeks before the start of the year. If there is no schedule, then the employee can go on vacation of his own free will by notifying management in writing 2 weeks in advance.
The employee is granted the first leave by law in six months after starting work. Although with the consent of the employer it can be provided earlier, with the consent of the employee - and later than this period. In six months, the employee has, as it were, “earned” half of the annual leave, but he can be provided with the entire leave in advance. True, if, after a vacation in advance, an employee decides to quit, he is charged vacation pay, which he has not yet earned. An interesting point: employees who have entered into an employment contract for a period of up to two months are provided with paid leave (or compensation for it) at the rate of two working days for each month of work. The situation is the same for those who are employed in seasonal work.
Those who decide to leave the organization always want to take their entire vacation off first. But you can’t leave immediately after a rest; you’ll have to work another two weeks as required by law. It is better to submit an application in advance, according to which all unused vacations will be provided to him (and paid) with subsequent dismissal. The day of dismissal will be considered the last day of vacation. Or you can submit your application two weeks before the end of your vacation so you don’t have to go back to work.
By the way, you should know that you can be called back from vacation only with your consent. No matter what emergency happens at your workplace, no one has the right to return you from vacation to solve problems against your will. If you refuse to return, this cannot be considered a violation of labor discipline.
Now as for the amount of vacation pay– Personally, it was never clear to me where it comes from and how it is calculated. The fact is that vacation pay is your average salary for the last year of work. It is calculated in this way: your annual earnings are divided by 12 (months), and then by another 29.4 (the average monthly number of calendar days). Moreover, earnings take into account not only the rate (the constant part of the salary), but also bonuses, fees and interest on projects. This is how the average daily salary is calculated. It is multiplied by the number of days on vacation, and we get the amount of vacation pay. If a person has worked for less than a year, his average salary is calculated based on the number of days worked.
During the years of Soviet power, many cartoons, anecdotes, and proverbs appeared on the topic of “rest on vacation” in our country. The triumph of democracy and human values should have pushed this problem aside or completely solved it, but that was not the case. We decided to help those planning a vacation and tell you in this article how to relax on vacation and what to do for it.
Love change!
We all get our hard-earned rest. But does everyone know how to rest properly? A change of environment brings great benefits to the human body and the restoration of mental abilities. You yourself have probably noticed more than once that most of us do not know how to relax on vacation, reducing it simply to two weeks without work.
Hard work for months, many tasks and responsibilities, but the long-awaited time comes, but strength is not restored. This happens because most of us continue to do the same things we did while working. Naturally, a complete transfer of the work process home does not happen, but the habits remain. Instead of a holiday, a person's vacation and rest turn into similar everyday life.
At a frantic pace
The pace of life of the modern average city resident cannot be called measured. You have to get out of bed early, get yourself ready, and rush to your place of work. You serve the program, and then you run home, thinking about your household chores as you go. There is a rush at every stage.
You also need to get a lot done over the weekend, because a lot of things have accumulated over the week. The remaining time is spent visiting friends, cultural events or entertainment.
The brain has a hard time. He needs to process many requests, store and retrieve a lot of useful information, and take care of future plans. During sleep, complete rest does not occur.
A trip to a warm country, where there is sea, sun and sand, is spent thinking about the future. The vacationer hurries to the airport, then to the hotel. Excursions or walks are planned every day in order to get to know the maximum number of objects in a minimum amount of time. People are in a hurry, plans go wrong, stress accumulates. Added to this are the problems of climate change, burnt backs, food poisoning, loss and theft of things.
Why do vacationers spread their pace of life during their vacation and do not understand how to relax properly? There are several objective reasons.
We dream of getting rid of the monotony of life and finding new experiences. But there is no other time for this, and we have to use every opportunity. Movement stimulates, and simple “doing nothing” brings boredom.
With such activity, you won’t be able to rest well. Along with a lot of new impressions, tension and stress will accumulate. Like a fire that smolders for years, and then suddenly becomes the cause of depression and health problems.
To have a good rest on vacation, slow down during this time. The result will be peace of mind and improved health.
Why do you need a vacation?
Our tragedy is that we do not know how to stop. Every day you have to spin like a squirrel in a wheel, surrounded by worries and problems. Vacation and rest for humans were invented so that we could be distracted and take a break. Instead, some are still in a hurry, and in moments of calm they drown out their brains with alcohol.
Taking a break from work and the team for a few weeks helps you relax. However, don't rule out all types of activity. Spend time on a hobby, go for a walk, swim in a pond, visit interesting places that you have been thinking about for a long time. It’s just a matter of small things: slow down and do everything calmly.
How to learn to relax?
- As the holiday season approaches, think about changing the rhythm of your life. This primarily applies to people who are highly active. Get enough sleep, spend time on the beach, go on excursions, enjoy the scenery, but don’t go against your emotional state.
- At first, a quiet rest may cause some discomfort. This is a normal phenomenon, because the brain needs time to rebuild. Give him some time and everything will work out.
- If your main work involves a computer, then get rid of it during your vacation. Let the news and social networks be bored without you.
- Don't make plans for the future. There will be time for this later.
- Try to drive less, give your body a break from the shock. Alcohol in large quantities is a strong stress for the whole body. You shouldn't empty the bar, even if it's all inclusive.
- To have a good vacation, you don’t have to travel the whole world. The feeling of joy from every moment of life lies in the depths of our soul and is simply covered on top by constant tension and stress. Visit the places you love and take quality, not quantity. This is the only way to have a good rest on vacation.
Many energetic Russians, especially young ones, at first and then prefer a vacation “at a gallop across Europe.” However, sightseeing at a frantic pace is practically no different from watching a documentary. An interesting place requires a slow immersion in the atmosphere. You need to soak it in, feel it.
Beauty can also be found far from the usual tourist routes, sometimes right under our noses. Why chase other people's miracles when there is so much nearby?
Don't race for new experiences and information. Relax, give your brain a rest, spend time at home, with close friends, walk in the fresh air. Forget about haste and plans for the future. You still have time to hurry, because the vacation is so short.
Be grateful for the quiet moments, try, find the positive in any situation and life will become more harmonious and your health will be strong.
An ideal vacation should last, as expected, 28 days. And not a day less! However, not all employers are ready to say goodbye to an employee for such a long period of time.
And as an alternative, many suggest splitting the 4 weeks of vacation into shorter periods. And if in two weeks, in principle, you can relax and relieve work stress, then what to do if you only have one week at your disposal?
Temporarily unavailable
If you only have a week of carefree relaxation, turn off your phone in the evening before your vacation. This way you can insure yourself against sudden calls from colleagues who cannot find some documents, files or contacts. If you have explained to your colleagues what and where it is, then you can, with a clear conscience, turn off all phones, leaving only your “home” number on.
If you actively use social networks, then you should either completely exclude your appearance on the Internet, or put a ban on communication with a certain group of people, which includes your employees and management. However, still, the first option is preferable, because you can “hang out” on the social network on weekdays, but it’s better to relax in less familiar ways!
Just a week for vacation is extremely little from the point of view of the physiology of our body. In order to switch from work mode to a calm rhythm of rest, the body needs several days, which, unfortunately, you do not have.
One of the best options in this case is to break the stereotype. Start resting immediately in the evening of your last working day. Instead of slumping tiredly on the couch, go to a party, have a celebration at home, or have active fun in nature. Active fun and the subsequent regime of rest and recovery will immediately “take away” your thoughts away from solving work problems. This way you will get rid of constant worries about how your colleagues are coping without you. The more actively you have fun, the sooner you will completely switch to relaxation mode!
New impressions
It is only at first glance that it seems impossible to fully gain new impressions in a week. Yes, you don’t have enough time to travel around the world, but for educational excursions around your city or region you have more than enough time resources.
To begin with, plan several days in a row in such a way that you can almost continuously go on some excursions or independently discover new places in your home and familiar city. Taking pictures of your area from an unusual angle or visiting those places that are associated with your childhood memories is a great idea for those who want to recharge not only with new impressions, but also with vivid emotions.
Change of scenery
You shouldn’t plan to solve economic problems if you only have one week of vacation, but you can still change some scenery. Wherever you go, you will probably take your favorite tablet or smartphone with you, at least to periodically check the navigator in an unfamiliar place. Change the screensaver on your favorite gadget - put on something that is associated with vacation or relaxation. Let it be a beautiful shot photographed by you on the first day of your vacation. Even if you are not going to go anywhere, put photos of your children or a photo of you having fun with friends on your screensaver. The main thing is that you do not associate the picture with the usual everyday rhythm. And don't forget to turn off the alarm!
Course - to make your dreams come true
The rhetorical question about whether a week of vacation is a lot or a little will stop worrying you if you start making your dream come true from the very first day. Of course, it’s worth choosing the one that can realistically be achieved in this period of time. Conduct an audit of your desires - among them there will probably be something that you can manage to do within one or two days.
A long-standing dream of going to a certain performance or concert can be successfully realized during vacation time. And more unusual dreams are best fulfilled when your thoughts are not at work. During this time, you may well jump with a parachute or master a new type of crochet, surprise your loved ones with your knowledge of French cooking, or master a few tango-style moves. This will give you the feeling that you didn’t just lie on the couch and spend precious seven days aimlessly, but spent this time on personal development and positive emotions.
Sun, air and water
Changing the usual office environment for natural scenery is a great idea for a tired vacationer. Even if you live far from bodies of water, try to spend more time in nature - go to parks, walk the streets more and definitely walk. This is especially useful for those whose work is sedentary.
Many psychologists recommend walking barefoot on grass, dirt or sand as an effective way to relieve stress. Country picnics or real tourist trips with tents and river rafting will help you change from the busy city rhythm to another, more suitable for a vacationer.
If you have planned a trip to another city, be sure to take time to get acquainted with the nature of the new place. No matter how wonderful the architectural masterpieces may be, don't limit your impressions to cityscapes only!
You can fully relax and return to work with positive impressions and a renewed attitude even after a short week-long vacation. Just a few days spent wisely can turn out to be much more useful, interesting and emotionally rich than a whole month of passive rest! So - decide what you want, and go ahead, relax!
We are looking forward to our vacation, preparing and making plans, dreaming of having enough rest for the year ahead! But as a result, the day before we try to resolve a bunch of urgent issues at once, while on vacation we regularly check our emails in anticipation of urgent requests, and immediately upon returning we find such a backlog of cases that we immediately get to work with double zeal and full dedication of our accumulated strength. As a result, already on the third day after the vacation it seems as if it never happened at all.
1. Forget about work
At all. Ideally, of course, you should prepare in advance and not leave a lot of unfinished business until the last days before your vacation, so that you can pack your bags and buy beach flip-flops without the nerves. But if this fails, then complete the most important things, and delegate the rest to your colleagues during your vacation and under no circumstances be tempted to update your work email or answer a work call. You also need to be able to rest. For effective relaxation, it is important not only to change the environment, but also to completely forget about work matters. Our brains need time to switch to rest mode, and periodically returning to thoughts about work interferes with this natural process. If the task is serious, you still won’t be able to fully solve it while on vacation, but if it’s something frivolous, then you can easily entrust it to someone else or wait until the end of the vacation.
2. Get enough sleep
When you have only two weeks planned for vacation, you want to immediately invest in them as much rest, emotions, and those personal matters that you don’t have time to do during work. But it is equally important to include mandatory long sleep in this busy schedule of adventures. Otherwise, at the end of your vacation, you risk returning with a whole baggage of emotions and interesting stories, but completely without strength. The human body has a physiological need for rest, and parties until the morning, and long bike rides in beautiful places are not included in the concept of this rest. To recuperate, you definitely need to sleep at least 8 hours a day. At least these two weeks in a row.
3. See something new and beautiful
Unfortunately, we don’t always spend our holidays in new cities and countries. Sometimes you have to take it to complete renovations, pass exams, or to care for a sick relative. In such cases, vacation is more a necessity than an opportunity to relax. But try to find at least a day or a few hours to visit a new place (a neighboring estate, an area of the city unfamiliar to you, a theater or just a cozy park not far from home). A change of scenery and new experiences will give you strength, at least a little. Again, try to completely discard thoughts about routine during these few hours of searching for new sensations, and then the next day you will definitely wake up cheerful and full of energy!
4. Have fun from the heart
After intense workdays, sometimes you just want to fall out of reality, sleep and not think about anything. Sometimes this is necessary. But it is much more effective to alternate between recovery and interesting active recreation on vacation. During your lazy vacation, you can plan bike rides, games of table tennis and badminton with friends, parties in clubs, or you can go on a lazy-active trip, where you won’t have to invent anything, and the program will already be planned for you in advance. For example, at the Sails Up! Party Yacht Week you will sunbathe on the decks of yachts during the day and then dance in the evenings in the open air, when there is nothing around except music and the sea. And between parties and sunbathing - scuba diving, fishing and exploring beautiful bays along the route.
5. Find new friends
If you're traveling alone, don't worry! After all, this is a great chance to meet new people and learn many interesting stories. And when you are in good company, still get to know each other, communicate, be open to new things, learn new cultures and customs, and look for new friends with similar interests! It will be more fun to remember travel stories with them later.
6. Return to reality in slow motion
Vacation, like all good things, unfortunately ends quickly. And when returning to your usual work duties, it is important to do this gradually. After all, if you pull the car away sharply, it will stall. It’s the same with you - if you throw all your accumulated strength into work at once, you’ll quickly use it up, but if you add load slowly, returning to your usual routine will be pleasant and comfortable. The quieter you go, the further you'll get!
Vacation is a long-awaited event, and you want to spend it not only pleasantly, but also usefully. Learning to relax is much more difficult than learning to work, although it sounds a little strange. Work keeps you on your toes all year long and involves a set of stereotypical actions - for some a little wider, for others - narrower. And suddenly you get a couple of free weeks that you need to live somehow differently. But how to relax on vacation? What to do if your body and soul have forgotten how to relax?
How to learn to rest and relax
For our contemporaries, getting proper rest is really a problem. There was even a special term: social jet lag - a disruption of natural biorhythms among residents of megacities who mixed work, home, and leisure into one whole. It used to be like it was: the sun has set - people are sleeping. Today daylight hours can last for days.
A computer at home and in the office, a smartphone in transport - modern means of communication have increased the working day by two or even three times. We have all become hostages to the ability to work around the clock. And this is not always useful.
Chronic workaholics who have forgotten how to rest can be easily identified by their gloomy, tense faces. They hardly smile, there is little joy in their lives, they are inflexible and are unable to discern grains of positivity in the bad. It’s good if the harmful symptoms end there. At the body level, a lack of rest can manifest itself as a shift in biorhythms: insomnia at night, drowsiness during the day; poor appetite, complete indifference to what is happening around.
Today we can talk quite seriously about a new disease - lack of rest syndrome. And without this, the body lives in constant stress, the immune system “sits down,” and vitality melts away. Hence - exacerbation of chronic diseases, frequent colds and even the degeneration of benign tumors into malignant ones. Such cases are now occurring, unfortunately, more and more often.
Three mistakes vacationers make
However, going on vacation twice a year does not guarantee a fresh outlook on the world and great health. Both a workaholic and a moderately hardworking citizen often make the same mistakes, which defeat the whole purpose of vacation days.
- How?! Have you ever been to the Bahamas?
Imitating someone else's example neutralizes our own desires. When choosing a vacation route, a person thinks about whether he will be able to brag about it to his friends later. He goes to Paris because it is fashionable this season, although to recover he needs a vacation in a country house on the river bank. As a result, he rests for someone else, and not for himself.
The same can be said about the craze for spiritual practices - people go to India and Nepal, despite the fact that, alas, no spiritual growth occurs for the majority. After all, people are driven not by an internal impulse, but by the desire to meet a fashionable standard. But this never gives you complete rest and relaxation.
- Who are all these people?
Bad company on vacation means money wasted. A holiday in a five-star hotel on the ocean islands can easily be poisoned by the angry hiss of a female companion or the grumbling of a boring friend. You should not drag with you to the resort a person who has become bored and disgusted with the entire working year. It is important to take a break from tired relationships, to protect yourself from communicating with individuals who evoke sad thoughts and cause hostility.
- No wifi?
Another classic mistake made by vacationers is to take a laptop with you to the resort, regularly access the Internet, check email, answer calls and call the office yourself. It’s better then not to go on vacation at all than to constantly be distracted by resolving work issues.
How to relax on vacation
Everything will work out with rest if you take care of your body and well-being, emotions and mood, people and thoughts that will accompany you. The body relaxes best by switching between the rhythms of activity and passivity. For those who have been sitting at the computer for a whole year, it is advisable to spend their vacation in the mountains and engage in active sports. For those who have been running around like mad, it makes sense to stretch out on the beach and think about the eternal. But in any case, on vacation you should not burden your head with thoughts about work matters and worries. Your task is to enjoy the current moments, the beauty of the surrounding nature and accumulate vivid memories.
It’s good if your vacation takes place by the sea or river. Water “washes away” problems and clears your thoughts, and in the end you will have every chance of feeling rested.
Rest with benefits for your figure
On vacation, you can relax, not deny yourself anything and bring home three extra pounds, and in addition, dissatisfaction with life. Or you can come, surprising everyone with your slimness, youth and positivity.
The sea and the beach are your allies!
There are different ways to spend time on the beach. If you’ve already been lying in a sun lounger for a couple of days and your bones are aching from idleness, then get involved in active recreation right here on the beach!
Firstly, swimming is twice as strong as training on land. Try to swim a lot, do simple exercises in the water such as swinging your legs, arms, turning your body, diving with a mask, jumping on the waves. If you have an all-inclusive package, don't miss the activities in the pool with the animator. In general, enjoy the gentle sea or ocean, otherwise why did it take so long to get there!
Secondly, if you care about your beauty, then during the daytime you will not disappear on the beach, but devote it, for example, to napping. This means that you will probably get up early in the morning. Why not go for a morning jog along the seashore at the first rays of sun. Or do morning exercises. By the way, swimming in the morning is much healthier.
Make a contract!
Gastronomic delights make your head spin, especially when you have an all-inclusive tour and those around you, as if by agreement, consume everything in large quantities. As a result, the stomach works for wear and tear, not having time to digest all the new portions. Plus, on vacation, most of us are not used to limiting ourselves in alcohol - a glass at lunch and a couple at dinner is sacred!
And it’s really hard to keep track of the quantity when it comes to beer gatherings with salty seafood. By the way, alcohol supplies the body with almost twice as many calories as proteins and carbohydrates, while lacking the nutrients. It is not surprising that after immoderate and regular libations, your waist gains centimeters. How to resist?
It is enough to eat as usual - three times a day, so as not to starve or overeat. And stop drooling at the trays of pakhvala, crayfish and churchkhella floating past and take a self-assembled tablecloth to the beach in case you get hungry. What you really need when it's hot at the beach is clean drinking water. If you are planning a long excursion or trip, grab mixed nuts and fresh fruit as a snack.
If you're on an all-inclusive vacation, use a little trick - try something you've never eaten (just try it, don't eat the whole portion), and ignore your usual dishes, even your favorite restaurant ones. You can order them at home too. As for alcohol, the only thing that will save you is moderation and the desire to get pleasant impressions and memories from your vacation, and not a headache.
And finally, two more tips from the category “how to relax properly on vacation”:
- Don't rush into vacation - don't overload yourself with rest in the first days. It is much more useful in every sense to go through a period of adaptation to the sea, doing nothing, climate, time change, etc.
- Do not rush to work after rest - reverse adaptation will not harm. Take advantage of the photos and videos you took on vacation, share your impressions with friends, and extend your vacation memories as long as possible.
Happy holidays!
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