So So true!! as a Euro born Gen x’r now and raised in Canada I was privileged to have my parents take me to several foreign places, and also travel many many local places EVERY weekend, my parents, and Dad moreso is an outdoors man type Rambo (no guns) old school dude so we were always swimming, actually I was taught to swim by being hurled into a lake at 1 year of age and he yelled swim. Same goes for bike riding, etc… Then, in my teens and again thanks to them I was forced to find full time employment at 15 and always work so I always had money to do as I wished. so me and buddies traveled to the standard places, the Carib spots, etc… never Mexico or Thailand thank God, I have had the gut feel I would never return. anyhow, having been to 25 or so places and mostly in Europe as I backpacked there alone a month after completing University ~ from Amsterdam to Greece ~ and back … alone. I try to visit all my family every 3 or so years on the Adriatic (not ITA) then and this article is right. If we all got 4 weeks paid vacation, mandatory, full benefits, health care (we do) and actually lived life and not lived for work all would be better. Life would. I used to chase the money and got it. A lot. It almost killed me. 40hour weeks? Not even close, I was at 60. and grossly underpaid and unappreciated most recently. Now retired and approaching 40 I need capital to start up my own venture. Not an easy task.
