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Yep, I taught U.S. History for 40 years and retired in 2010. I understand our brother from Calgary in not wanting to think about it during vacation, but what I don't understand is he gets 42 paid days off! Here, and I believe in most of the U.S., summer vacation, weekends, spring/winter breaks, are all unpaid, contrary to what many of my non-teaching friends thought. That's 42 days without a paycheck so I learned to save, very early on.