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How many times a year do you call out sick to work?
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When I'm sick or completely burnt out. But I am in a very lucky position where I can just email my manager that I am sick and they can sign off on it with a "ok" for the first 3 days, no doctors certificate needed. Sick leave is also 100% wages. Unionized public service.
But on the other hand I am 100% responsible for my clients alone and if I'm sick, nobody does the work. Somebody might go without safe housing or other bad stuff could happen and I am responsible for my folks, nobody else even knows the situations. So I typically at least work from home no matter how sick I feel, did that last week.
Also if I have to be on sick leave all the work is just waiting for me when I go back without enough time to do it. It just piles up and everything goes to shit.
I get sick maybe once a year, sick days 1-3 per year. But I do remote days as much as I can to compensate for the drain. And I will not go spread disease to my clients no matter what so if I'd be asked to do that I'd have a lot more sick days.