I'm a FIRE type personality, which means I would like to take the hit now to be better off in the future.

What that meant at my first real job was that even though I would have liked to take time off during the year, I liked the idea of having time off saved up better.

Since we couldn't carry days over, that meant that around the middle of November I told the team, happy holidays, see you all next year.

On January second, my boss told me he would never let me do that again. Which was sort of my first clue that employment conditions could be negotiated on a one by one basis.

I'm not at all a FIRE type person, and don't tend to trust these sort of casual time off in exchange for time worked up front agreements, but I like what you did there. In my area, compabies aren't required to pay tech workers overtime. Thanks EA!

What does FIRE mean?

financial indepenedence, retire early. frontload all your money making and then reach a point where you can statistically expect to die on the day you reach 0 money left.

That second part isn't a requirement. Fire doesn't require you to spend all your money, and indeed, that's generally a bad idea...

Genius. I'm asking to do this tomorrow.

Another option is if you can alternate every other friday and monday you'll get 4 day weekends every other weekend. This can really be refreshing too.

Just be careful. When I went to part time I made the mistake of choosing Monday as one of my days off - most public holidays here are Mondays so I missed out.

Ive explicitly chose wednesday as my day off for that reason.

yeah, I reached maxout, and switched to taking every Friday off. It was wonderful.