<HTML>In a message dated 5/23/02 5:57:51 PM !!!First Boot!!!, jtanner@mozart.music.sc.edu writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Now, consider this.  If you DON'T use this leave time and work all year, what will you be paid?  Exactly the same amount if you had used it.  You can't add the value of the leave time to your salary to invent a bigger salary.  </BLOCKQUOTE> Jeff I understand that. That is why I said the "value" of all that extra time is $11,000. But I look at the vacation time, etc., reverse. If I were self employed, and worked 52 weeks a year, I would actually be able to make that much more. But if I were to take that time, I am actually loosing that money That is the benefit of paid vacations. Wim</HTML>