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Originally Posted by CorneringArtist

As much as I want to make up an excuse, I could never make up an excuse THAT bold. I try my best to be straight up with people, but lying my way into a vacation is both risky for me financially despite living at home, and throws the other apprentices I work with under the bus by overloading them if I leave. The more I think about it, the more I realize I'm sacrificing my own happiness for the sake of the status quo, and really there's nothing I can do about it.

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I'm going to be perfectly honest, and say that if things stay the way they are now, especially the part where I've never been in a relationship, by the time I turn 30, I have strong feelings of committing suicide as by that point it would feel like I completely wasted my life. It's a morbid thought, but I'd rather die young having lived an unfulfilled life than suffer well into old age.

Ask your boss for the time off and tell him the reason straight up. You are human not a machine. You are probably a hard worker since you care about your co-workers. If you boss won't give you the time off then you are not valued and should start looking for other jobs. How is it any different if you were in a car accident and were off for a month. Your co-workers won't hate you.

I booked my tickets first. Came in the next morning and told my boss I won't be here for 3 weeks in june. He said no problem, didn't even ask for a reason. Whats the worst that will happen? Lose your job?