[quote=Thibault]Thanks for all the great feedback! I will try to reply to some of the questions a little later.
My desire was not to go back to France just for the sake of going to France. It is mostly to see my family and my friends on a more regular basis.
In the past 10 years or so, I have only been to France about every other year and usually for 10 to 12 days at most. It is not even what I would call a vacation. It’s essentially a quick tour to see as many as people as possible.
I guess going back to France with my daughter just once a year but 2 or 3 months at a time would be a great solution to my problems. But with the job I currently hold, that’s not feasible. My company would problably let me know do that once as unpaid time-off but I already know for sure they won’t let me do that every single year.
So I am basically to find a job that would accomodate that. And it’s not easy.
I will defnitely explore some of the options you guys suggested.[/quote]

At my company, there are a lot of people who have family in India and the Far East (Korea,China,etc)…

Typically, for those employees, they tended to schedule 4-5 weeks of vacation off during the summertime to see family.

Previously, when my employer use to offer paid vacation days, people would accumulate their vacation time until they hit the maximum/cap and then they would plan ahead to take time off….

Since then, my employer eliminated vacations in the old sense and made vacation policy technically “unlimited” subject to deadlines/etc… They did this as a cost saving measure so that people who never took vacation couldn’t cash it in for money at the end of their employment etc/etc/etc. So what ends up happening now is people just schedule vacation time in since it’s a use it or lose it policy now.

Assuming you are a full time employee, you should have either accrued vacation or the new type of “vacation” policy….