Best perks: Naturally, because it's such a hazardous job, there's unlimited sick leave, and five weeks' vacation.
After months of looking, Mr. Venzant said, he has gotten an offer that will give him two years of work, with free room and board and five weeks' vacation.
Last year, the City Council mandated at least five weeks' vacation for each horse every 12 months, at a stable allowing access to a paddock or pasture.
Last year, the Jerry L. Pettis Memorial V.A. Medical Center in Loma Linda, Calif., began giving recruits enhanced benefits, with five weeks vacation and a $10,000 scholarship for continuing education.
This is a man who had five weeks' vacation last year, yet when Kathy went back to work, she found he had sneaked into his office.
The proof, it says, is that technicians in New York average $84,000 in annual salary and benefits, receive up to five weeks' vacation and rank No. 1 for pension benefits among workers at the nation's 10 largest companies.
As does a government-mandated five weeks' vacation a year, which when public holidays are added, stretches to eight weeks.
By John Updike The New Yorker, February 11 , 1961P. 35 An American couple & their children are spending a reasonable three week vacation on a remote British Caribbean island.
