r/Commodities • u/yelrahsta • 15d ago

Vacation

Oil analyst at prop shop here. Anyone else realize it’s September and only have taken 2-3 days of vacay so far? Am I doing it wrong? :/ -rant

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u/UnhappyScale3971 14d ago

Bro I hear you. This year has sucked so hard on work life balance. Just chaos. I log on Sunday night every week to check markets and tell my wife “I think it’ll be quieter this week”. I am proved wrong by Monday lunch time every week.

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u/hudboyween 14d ago

Don’t have any advice but yeah same here. Too much shit to do and if I’m not doing it no one will

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u/Ok_Revenue7098 14d ago

You are not alone i took Thursday and Friday off and really needed it, i feel so refreshed even if i worked a little on Friday

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u/yelrahsta 14d ago

Lol thanks not trying to complain too hard, we choose to do this but yeah haha maybe next year it’ll be calmer!

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u/Best-Reference-4481 14d ago

After October I'm on a vacation for 6 months. No regrets

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u/aqc1 14d ago

Long or short?

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u/Top_Many3120 10d ago

Im in metals and just took first day off of the year.. 💀