I Want 2 Months Off Each Year

As a freelancer, I spend a lot of time trying to fiddle with my work schedule. I want to create the perfect schedule so that I am truly content with it all of the time. After many years of making different changes to it, I think that I've found the ideal schedule. I want a schedule that gives me two months off every year.

That may sound absurd to people who only get two weeks of vacation each year. However, I think it's actually do-able. It may mean that I have to work six or seven days per week the rest of the year but I think it would be worth the trade-off. With two months off each year, I could take vacations to Canada and other places that I want to explore in-depth. It's hard to do that when you only get two weeks off at a time.

At first I thought that I wanted to take the two months off all at one time. However I don't think I want to work so hard for ten months straight throughout the rest of the year. So I think that I want to take one month off, work for the next five months and then take the next month off. I'm going to have to do some restructuring of my work to make that happen but I hope to be able to start that new schedule later this year.