So glad you're with us here on the Clark Howard Show where it's about your empowerment with

knowledge so you can keep more of what you have.

In this two-step economic situation we're in, there are people struggling with just the

basics of life even having enough food to eat, worried about where they're going to be

able to live and all that is they've experienced extreme economic hardship and job loss.

While others continue to work, have benefits potentially and nothing really has changed

for their financial equation except maybe it's gotten a little better.

Well a friend was driving by just a couple days ago while I was out walking and stopped

to talk to me and told me that she and her husband had just been on a driving vacation

and that they went to a beach that was about five hours away and what a nice time they

had.

And she mentioned, you know, but I still have weeks of vacation that I'm never going to

get to use this year.

And I thought about this because I talked about it like, I don't know, four or six weeks

ago how people who have benefits at work and have vacation generally have not been using

it.

And you know, there's a burnout with that and maybe you would plan some kind of great trip

you were going on and that has fallen through because of the pandemic.

But most employers have used it or lose it rules for vacation.

And if you're working week after week after week, day after day, I mean there are people

who are under employed right now or unemployed who aren't crying a river for you because

you got that good job in that steady paycheck.

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