When you’re a kid, summer means one thing - vacation. For most adults, however, summertime is just another season of five day work weeks and dress down Fridays. Unless, that is, you do something like teach or work in Hollywood. Then you’re on break, or hiatus, or whatever your chosen industry chooses to call it.
Marketplace Money is working on a series about people who year after year face a gap in employment during the summer months.
If your job breaks for summer, we have a question for you: is your time off a welcome change or does it cause a financial headache? Tell us here.
As an elementary school teacher, I live for the summer as a time to regroup, be artistic, rest, travel, and recover from the previous school year. My children, who have two teachers for parents, were shocked to learn that not every adult gets 10 weeks off each summer.