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Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashana are important... but there are three other festivals that have pretty much the same general categories of restriction on them as well: Passover, Shavuot (the Feast of Weeks, if the translation helps), and Sukkot (the Feast of Booths). On the first and last two days of Passover and Sukkot, also the only two days of Shavuot, I do not work. I don't use electricity, or write, or do any of a number of things I'd have to do at work. This year, all these days turn out to be weekdays. This doesn't include the middle days of the two holidays, which would be better for me to take off, but I can't afford, plus a number of smaller holidays (Purim, Tu B'Shvat, Hannuka, Yom Ha'Atzmaut, Yom Ha'Zikaron) and fast days (Tisha B'Av, Tzom Gedaliah, Ta'anit Esther, Shiva-asar b'Tamuz, (gah, I'm forgetting at least two more) that would also be nice to take off as well.

It's not that I get flak at work for taking the days (as I did at another job), it's just that some years, between religious obligations and friends'/relatives' life-cycle events, I won't get much of a vacation this year, beyond a couple of long weekends. It's frustrating, especially when there are things I'd like to go to, places I'd like to see...