I can afford to take a few months hiatus from my job as I barely have any, not finding the word I want so I'll say, financial responsibilities. But I can't unless I quit or get fired? They give me 1 week off a year paid(and I had to use it as sick days 1 month into the year), I can ask for unpaid time off but am not likely to get it (especially consecutively) I look forward to getting sick, its the only excuse I get to stay home for a week or more. At this point I just wanna get fired and take my time applying for new jobs and only accept one when I finally get bored of being stuck at home. I know of at least 3 places I can guarantee myself a similar job to what I have now (not that I enjoy what I'm doing in any way), unless shit was to hit 08' levels of bad again. The only downside is I won't have health insurance unless I want to fork over a HEFTY sum ever month. This is why they wont give us any kind of universal healthcare, but not what I'm bitching about right now.