Hear The 1 About The Employer Paying You To Travel The World?

Any person else catch this story about the girl receiving paid by her corporation not to show up to function for a year and travel the planet and get paid $80,000 though carrying out so. Oh the humanity, stories like this make me want to do one thing crazy and irrational with my well being like go bungee jumping off a bridge or watch “Grey’s Anatomy.”

Turns out it’s not all superior, she’s really a lawyer and has been toiling away, functioning 14-hour days (with likely really little vacation) at a no-nonsense job for the past six years, and she’ll have to go back to it immediately after the year’s up (if they take her back):

Hunting to reduce fees like every person else, but not ready to lay off associates, Skadden [her employer] has chosen instead to supply all of its associates — about 1,300 worldwide — the alternative of accepting a third of their base pay to not show up for work for a year. (So far, the partners have no equivalent arrangement.)